iOS Cloud Development For Dummies^®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Mobile Apps Need to Be Mobile

Part II: Adding iCloud

Part III: Web Services

Part IV: Building Your Own Web Service

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Mobile Apps Need to Be Mobile

Chapter 1: Compelling Mobile Applications

What Makes Mobile Devices So Compelling

Creating zero degrees of separation

Benefiting from the mobility, not the mobile devices

Increasing the quality of life

Making the technology disappear

Reveling in the aesthetics

An Application Ecosystem

iCloud and universal apps

Web services

The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

Evolving the Model View Controller

Chapter 2: The Lonely RoadTrip App

Starting at Square 7

The RoadTrip App

Points of Interest and the Itinerary

How RTModel Manages the Data

Part II: Adding iCloud

Chapter 3: Setting Up Core Data

Managing Your Itinerary

Core Data Basics

Starting with the Objects — The Managed Object Model

Adding the attributes

Generating your classes

Thinking managed objects through

The Core Data Stack

The managed object context

The Persistent Store coordinator and persistent store

Adding the Core Data Stack

Adding the properties needed by the Core Data stack

The managed object context

Concurrency support for managed object contexts ...