Core Data in Objective-C: Data Storage and Management for iOS and OS X, 3rd Edition

Core Data is Apple’s data storage framework: it’s powerful, built-in, and can integrate with iCloud. Discover all of Core Data’s powerful capabilities, learn fundamental principles including thread and memory management, and add Core Data to both your iOS and OS X projects. All examples in this edition are based on Objective-C and are up-to-date for the latest versions of OS X El Capitan and iOS 9.

Core Data expert Marcus Zarra walks you through a fully developed application based around the Core Data APIs. You’ll build on this application throughout the book, learning key Core Data principles such as NSPredicate, NSFetchRequest, thread management, and memory management.

Start with the basics of Core Data and learn how to use it to develop your application. Then delve deep into the API details. Explore how to get Core Data integrated into your application properly, and work with this flexible API to create convenience methods to improve your application’s maintainability. Reduce your migration difficulties, integrate your Core Data app with iCloud and Watch Kit, and use Core Data in a queue-based environment. By the end of the book, you’ll have built a full-featured application, gained a complete understanding of Core Data, and learned how to integrate your application into the iPhone/iPad platform.

This third edition updates all examples for OS X El Capitan and iOS 9, and gets you up to speed on changes in multithreading and batch processing. There’s a new chapter on efficiently importing data from a network location, and a new discussion of how best to pre-load data into your application.

What You Need:

Mac OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 and a basic working knowledge of Objective-C

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Building a Foundation
Chapter 2. Under the Hood of Core Data
Chapter 3. iOS: NSFetchedResultsController
Chapter 4. Versioning and Migration
Chapter 5. Performance Tuning
Chapter 6. Threading
Chapter 7. Bulk Changes
Chapter 8. Using Core Data with iCloud
Chapter 9. Adding a Desktop Foundation
Chapter 10. OS X: Bindings, KVC, and KVO
Chapter 11. Spotlight, Quick Look, and Core Data
Chapter 12. Dynamic Parameters