Chapter 1. Overview

This book is a practical guide to help you in developing Data-Driven iPhone applications using Core Data. The tremendous success of iPhone has increased the demand of mobile applications. Besides the Game-based applications, there is a huge market for the data-driven mobile applications too. The focus of this book is to make you understand how the Core Data, Apple's persistence framework, is used for developing data-driven mobile applications.

Prerequisite

This book assumes that you have a basic understanding of the iPhone SDK and you also know the basics of iPhone SDK programming.

To better understand the concept of Core Data, you should:

  • Have a good understanding of the Objective-C protocol and the delegation pattern
  • Be familiar with data source patterns, such as UITableView and UITableViewDataSource, for the purpose of displaying information

Even if you're not aware of these two concepts, Chapter 3, Understanding Objective-C Protocol and Table View and Chapter 4, Designing a Data Model and Building Data Objects for Customers of the book are focused to get you acquainted with them. That is why the two chapters are self-contained and each chapter presents an individual application.

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