Learning Core Data for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Building Core Data Applications

6. Views

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein

Chapter 5, “Table Views,” demonstrated how to create Core Data–backed table views. During this process, the benefits of a fetched results controller were explained as one was implemented in CoreDataTVC. This helpful UITableViewController subclass was itself subclassed as you customized the Prepare and Shop tabs to display different information. The application now looks a lot more like a real iOS application, and less like an exercise in Core Data theory. This chapter shows how to pass selected managed objects from a table view to a view. A custom view will also be configured to edit the selected managed object. In the process, you’ll be shown how to ...