What this book covers
Chapter 1, Saving and Extracting Data, focuses on the ways to save the data in the document directory of the device along with ways to fetch the data back. In this chapter, we will also discuss the encryption and decryption of the files that are saved in the document directories. We will also discuss keychain and raw disk decryption in the chapter.
Chapter 2, Social Media Integration, teaches you the various ways to integrate social media with your application. The primary focus will be on the various configurations that have to be taken care of while integrating social media with the application.
Chapter 3, Integrating Data Analytics, discusses the various application analytics tools. The primary focus will be on the various ways to grab the user events and actions on the app. Then, moving forward, we will learn the powerful ways to crunch the useful information from the data gathered on the cloud.
Chapter 4, App Distribution and Crash Reporting, teaches you about the power of distributing your apps without releasing them to Apple's App Store. In this chapter, you will learn about over the air application distribution. You will also learn the various ways to track errors in our app.
Chapter 5, Demystifying Crash Reports, demystifies the overall crash reporting system. This also includes ways to read the crash reports accumulated on iTunes Connect. You will learn to decode binary crash reports to generate and gather useful information.
Chapter 6, Forensics Recovery, holds all the recovery and backup related operations on the device. You will learn about recovery modes in detail along with data extraction from the device. This chapter will also allow the user to extract data from iTunes backup files by decrypting them. Then, finally, we will see some case studies to demonstrate how data was recovered from the device in very vital cases.
Chapter 7, Forensics Tools, explores all the aforementioned tools and their capacity to retrieve data. You will learn about the various features provided by each of them. We will also compare a few tools with each other, considering both open source and paid tools.
