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You're reading from Core Data iOS Essentials Knowing Core Data gives you the option of creating data-driven iOS apps, and this book is the perfect way to learn as it takes you through the process of creating an actual app with hands-on instructions.

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849690942

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Objective-C

Tools

Xcode

Concepts

iOS Development

Core Data iOS Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding Core Data

3. Understanding Objective-C Protocol and Table View

4. Designing a Data Model and Building Data Objects for Customers

5. Creating, Listing, and Deleting Names of Customers

6. Creating, Listing, Displaying, and Deleting Records of Customers

7. Updating and Searching Records of Customers

8. Entering, Saving, Listing, and Deleting the Records of the Products Sold to the Customers

9. Entering, Displaying, and Deleting the Stock

10. Editing the Stock Information

11. Displaying the Products for Sale and Updating the Stock

Appendix

Our application consists of three entities:

The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) of the application is as shown in the following figure:

Let's have a quick look at the usage of the three entities displayed in the preceding figure:

The Product table is used to store information about products sold to the selected customer. The table has three fields: itemname, price, and quantity. This table is related to the Customer table via a many-to-one relationship because many customers may purchase the same product.
The Customer table is used to store information about the customer and has three data fields: name, e-mail ID, and contact number. This table is related to the Product table via a one-to-many relationship because a customer can purchase more than one product.
The MasterProduct table is used to store information about the vendor's products. This table also shows the quantity on hand for each product. The table has four fields: itemname...

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