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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

www.PacktPub.com

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

To create a new project, perform the following steps:

1. Launch Xcode and create a new project by selecting the File | New Project option.
2. The New Project Assistant window will appear, prompting us to select a template for the new project, as shown in the next screenshot. We will select the Navigation-based Application template.
3. Ensure that the Use Core Data for storage checkbox is checked and click on the Choose... button.
4. On selecting the Choose... button, we will get a dialog box to specify the name and the location of the project. Let us keep the location the same as default (Documents folder) and assign the project name as: prob (any name).
5. Click on Save. Xcode will then generate the project files and the project gets opened in the Xcode project window.
Note
The checkbox Use Core Data for storage will ask Xcode to provide all the default code that is required for using Core Data. This option is visible with only two project templates: Navigation-based Application...

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