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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

Working with Keychain

When you work in mobile apps, you will come across situations when you need to store sensitive information, such as passwords, keys, tokens, user sessions, and so on. Saving this information in plain format or in a place where other apps or the user himself can access it is a disaster and can compromise the security of your device.

From my point of view, I don't recommend saving any sensitive information on the device. However, if you really want to go ahead with it then, before saving anything, you have to ask yourself, do I really need to do this? It's very important to save all important information on the server side and, if it is absolutely necessary to save anything locally, it has to be encrypted and saved in a secure place, such as Keychain.

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