Chapter 10. iOS: An ORM Layer on SQLite
In this chapter, we're going to look at downloading the bookmarks from the server and storing them in the database. iOS comes with a copy of the SQLite database as standard, and so we'll use this as our storage mechanism.
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iOS comes with an object-persistence mechanism called Core Data. We won't be using this in this chapter, mostly because the implementation of the other platforms is based on a relational database, but also because of personal preference.
In the last two chapters, we've been working with Objective-C and Cocoa Touch features, which, as you know, are implemented as class libraries. SQLite is implemented using a flat C API, which means we need to take a slightly different approach. Those ...
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