Chapter     5

iCloud Document Storage with UIDocument

In this chapter you will learn the fundamentals of adding iCloud Document Storage to your applications. I start by explaining what the iCloud Document storage is and how it has been integrated into core technologies for you to leverage. In discussing these technologies I show you the two different ways that you can take your application to iCloud by using UIDocument and Core Data.

Next we dive into detail on both of these technologies. Using our test app from the previous chapter we will add a new section that uses UIDocument at the local level. I then modify the app to show you how you can move those local documents to iCloud.

Because Core Data is such a complex technology I highly recommend ...

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