Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS® X Lion™ App Development in 24 Hours

Hour 15. Working with Apple’s iCloud

What you’ll learn in this hour:

• Introduction to iCloud

• Ideal Scenarios for Using iCloud

• Storing Key-Value Data in the Cloud

• Storing Documents in the Cloud

In this hour we’ll discuss a service that Apple released shortly after the initial release of Mac OS X Lion: iCloud. iCloud gives developers the ability to create applications that can store information and documents in the cloud without worrying about the infrastructure required to support it.

In this hour, you’ll learn about iCloud, when to use it, and how to write code that uses iCloud to store and retrieve data and documents.

Introduction to iCloud

With the release of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 and iOS 5.0, Apple made the iCloud service available. ...