OS X App Development with CloudKit and Swift

© Bruce Wade 2016

Bruce Wade, OS X App Development with CloudKit and Swift, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1880-8_1

1. Introduction

Bruce Wade¹ 

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We are living in an exciting time in which data-driven applications (DDAs) are becoming an indispensable way of life. Unfortunately, creating a data-driven application isn’t always the most straightforward process. When developing DDAs we have to worry about network connectivity, web services, scalability, security, app authentication, performance, and how to handle data synchronization ...