Core Data for iOS: Developing Data-Driven Applications for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Preface

We live in a data-driven world. We consume social data, like email, Twitter, and Facebook, business data, like share prices, financial forecasts, and bank accounts, and occasionally we might have a little fun with the more recreational side to life, like brainteasers, or games involving squawking birds and mock air traffic control, where we expect to be able to track our progress and rejoice when we beat our previous high scores.

As mobile devices increase in performance, capacity, and capability, we place ever-increasing demands on our phones or tablet devices to consume, save, fetch, search and display our data. Consumers buy iPhones, iPod touches and iPads with storage capacities unheard of in handheld or even desktop devices only ...