Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac® and iOS in 24 Hours

Hour 17. Structuring Apps for Core Data, Documents, and Shoeboxes

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Comparing document and non-document templates for Mac OS and iOS

• Using the built-in templates and customizing them

• Moving data models and data from one project to another

Looking at Apps from the Core Data Point of View: The Role of Documents

In this book, you have seen how the Core Data stack is set up so that, for example, you always have a managed object context and a persistent store. In addition, of course, you have a data model (roughly comparable to a database schema), and with SQLite, a file that contains the persistent store’s data.

Note

You can customize Core Data to use other data stores than SQLite. However, this topic is beyond ...