Learning iCloud Data Management: A Hands-on Guide to Structuring Data for iOS and OS X, Rough Cuts

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Master iCloud data management for Mac OS X 10.8 and iOS hands-on, through two start-to-finish projects!

Leading Apple data management author Jesse Feiler introduces all facets of iCloud data management, fully leveraging key improvements in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Data management is one of the most challenging areas of iCloud development: Feiler's Learning iCloud Data Management helps you understand the issues, choose the right technologies, and implement them quickly and successfully -- delivering friendly, efficient, and highly-usable apps that seamlessly "round-trip" between iOS and OS X.

You'll first build a complete iOS app enabling an employee to photograph a maintenance problem, identify its location with GPS, use interface features to describe it and type further details, store data in a Core Data store, store user preferences in KVC storage, and store checkbox titles in a property list. Next, you'll build an OS X app that syncs with your iOS app, enabling a manager to schedule maintenance, using the Address Book and Calendar APIs to access data that has already been synced for this user -- and thereby demonstrating the "round trip" between iOS and OSX devices.

Through these projects, you'll learn all you need to know to integrate user data into iOS and OS X apps; to structure and sync app data across devices and operating systems; to create iCloud app libraries, and much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Introducing iCloud

Chapter 1: Exploring iCloud: The User Experience

Chapter 2: Making the Magic Happen: How Developers Do It

Part II: Using the APIs

Chapter 3: Introducing the APIs

Chapter 4: Using the Address Book API

Chapter 5: Working with the Calendar API

Chapter 6: Managing Privacy

Part III: Using the Technologies

Chapter 7: What is KVC?

Chapter 8: Using Property Lists

Chapter 9: Managing Persistent Storage with Core Data

Chapter 10: Adding Data to App Bundles and Resources

Chapter 11: Unraveling the Special Case of Data-Based Widgets for iBooks Author and Dashboard

Chapter 12: Moving data back and forth

Chapter 13: Comparing the Technologies

Part IV: Using iCloud, Documents and Data

Chapter 14: Managing Sandboxes, Permissions, Privileges, Containers, and Entitlements

Chapter 15: Working with iOS Documents

Chapter 16: Working with OSX Documents

Chapter 17: Working with App Libraries

Chapter 18: Making the Roundtrip: iOS-OS X and Back

Chapter 19: Making a Sidetrip: Multiple Devices on a Network and Multiple Versions