Core Data for iOS: Developing Data-Driven Applications for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch / Tim Isted, Tom Harrington

Today, virtually every non-trivial iPhone and iPad app must manage data quickly, smoothly, reliably, and with minimal impact on the CPU to conserve battery life. Core Data, Apple s ready-made data persistence layer, can help you achieve all these goals. In Core Data for iOS, two leading iOS developers teach you the entire Core Data framework from the ground up. Writing for intermediate-to-advanced iOS developers, Tim Isted and Tom Harrington thoroughly explain how Core Data is used on iOS devices, introduce each of its primary classes, and show how they interact to provide amazing functionality with minimal configuration. You ll learn how to store, fetch, and validate data; provide it efficiently to views; and much more. Isted and Harrington first give you a firm grounding in the technology, and then present real-world examples. They present multiple sample projects, as well as a start-to-finish, chapter-length case study. Coverage includes

Understanding Core Data s features, classes, and interactions

Using Core Data in MVC-based iOS app development

Mapping relational data to object models, and building them with Xcode 4 s Data Modeler

Working with managed objects and using UITableView to display them

Creating predicates to match numbers, data, and objects

Maintaining compatibility across versions of an app s data model

Tracking managed object contexts across view controllers

Using Core Data s automatic Undo functionality

Integrating abstract entities, entity inheritance, and multiple view controllers into a complete app

Optimizing for iOS devices tight memory limits

Diagnosing and fixing common Core Data problems

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