iOS eCommerce App Development with Parse

Chapter    3

Parse Fundamentals

Parse has numerous features and functionality to help make a developer’s life easier. These features are covered throughout the book. This chapter focuses on the Parse iOS SDK.

In this chapter you learn about:

• Interacting with the Parse PFObject class and subclasses
• Retrieving data with the PFQuery class
• Creating relations between objects with pointers, arrays, Parse relations, and joining tables
• Loading and displaying images with the PFImageView class
• Displaying images with the PFTableViewCell class
• Querying and showing data with the PFQueryTableViewController class

Interacting with Objects: PFObject

If you’re an iOS developer, you are familiar with NSObject. NSObject is the root class of most Objective-C class ...