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_5

5. Creating Test Data with CloudKit Dashboard

Bruce Wade¹ 

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In this chapter we will take information about the data we created in chapter 3 and create record types using the CloudKit Dashboard. Next, we will use the Dashboard to create some test data that we will add to our prototype in the next chapter.

Setting Up Our Project for CloudKit

In the previous chapter we took a look at CloudKit. However, when using the Dashboard our app was not listed in the container list. This is because we have not yet enabled CloudKit for our app. Let’s do that now.

First, you must have a developer account, ...