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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you create apps, solve problems, and build your portfolio of projects in Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784391379
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Xcode and Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Standard Library and Collections 3. Using Structs and Generics 4. Design Patterns with Swift 5. Multitasking 6. Playground 7. Swift Debugging with Xcode 8. Integrating with Objective-C 9. Dealing with Other Languages 10. Data Access 11. Miscellaneous Index

Controlling your stock

The idea of an application connected with a database came with the need of keeping some data even if the application finishes. However, SQL is another language, and you have to repeat the development twice, similar to how a new field in a class is also a new field in the database.

When Xerox developed the first window system based on Smalltalk, they didn't use any kind of database. The argument for this was that if an application doesn't finish, the data will always be stored in the RAM memory.

The idea itself is very intelligent, but we know that the real world doesn't work like that. Applications crash and finish and devices need to reboot sometimes. Besides this, you also need to consider that up to the present the RAM memory is still more expensive than hard disks. The new iPhone 6, for example, has only 1 gigabyte of RAM and at least 32 gigabytes of permanent storage.

Based on the problems mentioned earlier, Apple recommends that you use its own ORM...

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