13. Getting Up and Running with Core Data

At first glance, Core Data can look difficult and overwhelming. There are several books devoted solely to Core Data, and the official Apple documentation is lengthy and challenging to get through since it covers the entire breadth and depth of the topic. Most apps do not require all the features that Core Data has to offer. The goal of this chapter is to get you up and running with the most common Core Data features that apps need.

This chapter describes how to set up a project to use Core Data, and illustrates how to implement several common use cases with the sample app. It covers how to set up your data model, how to populate some starting data, and how to display data in a table using a fetched results ...

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