Professional iPhone® and iPad™ Database Application Programming

Chapter 1. Introducing Data-Driven Applications

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Creating a view-based application using Xcode

• Building a very simple data model

• Neatly displaying your data in a table using the UITableView control

Data is the backbone of most applications. This is not limited only to business applications. Games, graphics editors, and spreadsheets alike all use and manipulate data in one form or another. One of the most exciting things about the iPhone is that it enables you and your customers to take your data anywhere. The mobility of the device gives the developer an amazing platform for developing applications that work with that data. You can use the power of existing data to build applications that use that data in new ways. In this book, you will learn how to display data, create and manipulate data, and finally, to send data over the Internet.

In this chapter, you learn how to build a simple data-driven application. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to create a view-based application using Xcode that displays your data using the UITableView control. You will also gain an understanding of the Model-View-Controller architecture that underlies most iPhone applications.

BUILDING A SIMPLE DATA-DRIVEN APPLICATION

Many applications that you will build for the iPhone will need to handle data in one form or another. It is common to display this data in a table. In this section, you learn how to build an application that displays your data in a table in an iPhone application. ...