13. Back Up and Restore with Dropbox

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

In Chapter 12, “Search,” the search functionality was added to Grocery Dude. The feature set will now be extended to include a data backup and restore capability. This capability will be achieved by integrating with Dropbox, which is a free web-service providing limited cloud-based storage. The Dropbox Sync API for iOS (www.dropbox.com/developers/sync) will be leveraged to provide a device-local Dropbox file system. Anything copied to this file system will be automatically synchronized with the user’s Dropbox account. If Grocery Dude users don’t have a Dropbox account, they will need to create one. This chapter will demonstrate the entire process of creating and ...

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