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Learning Xcode 8

By : Jak Tiano
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Learning Xcode 8

By: Jak Tiano

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a breakthrough in mobile computing and the birth of world-changing mobile apps. With a reputation as one of the most user-centric and developer-friendly platforms, iOS is the best place to launch your next great app idea. As the official tool to create iOS applications, Xcode is chock full of features aimed at making a developer’s job easier, faster, and more fun. This book will take you from complete novice to a published app developer, and covers every step in between. You’ll learn the basics of iOS application development by taking a guided tour through the Xcode software and Swift programming language, before putting that knowledge to use by building your first app called “Snippets.” Over the course of the book, you will continue to explore the many facets of iOS development in Xcode by adding new features to your app, integrating gestures and sensors, and even creating an Apple Watch companion app. You’ll also learn how to use the debugging tools, write unit tests, and optimize and distribute your app. By the time you make it to the end of this book, you will have successfully built and published your first iOS application.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Learning Xcode 8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Persisting data


In order to implement persistence for our application's data, we need to do three things: save data, load data, and delete data. In this section, we're going to go through our ViewController class and remove all of the references to our old data model, and instead begin using our new Core Data compatible data model. As we go, we'll be introducing new ways of saving and loading our snippet data, and adding the ability to delete snippets.

Saving data

With our old data model, saving data consisted of two steps: create a new instance of a SnippetData subclass, and then add it to our data array. Now, with Core Data, the process is pretty similar but it takes a few more lines of code and uses some new concepts.

Before we can get started with our new save mechanisms, we're going to make two small changes. First, add an import CoreData command at the top of the ViewController.swift file, with the other import statements. Then, change the type of our data array so that instead of [SnippetData...