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S. Baruah, S. BaruahApp Development Using iOS iCloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8758-3_2

2. CloudKit Overview

Shantanu Baruah1   and Shaurya Baruah1
(1)
Somerset, NJ, USA
 

Ever since Apple announced CloudKit, a new avenue for cloud-based App development has emerged for developers. CloudKit offers a great avenue for Apps that need interactions with other App users. Prior to CloudKit, developers used to create homegrown solutions from authentication to data sync, which is not an easy task to do besides being vulnerable to security breaches. CloudKit wraps all such complexities and provides a scalable architecture to develop data-persistent, cloud-based ...

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