Professional: iOS Database Application Programming -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Technical Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- What's New in This Edition -- Who This Book is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- P2P.Wrox.Com -- Part I: Manipulating and Displaying Data on the iPhone and iPad -- Chapter 1: Introducing Data-Driven Applications -- Building a Simple Data-Driven Application -- Creating the Project -- Adding a UITableView -- Retrieving Data -- Implementing Your Data Model Class -- Displaying the Data -- Further Exploration -- Design Patterns -- Reading a Text File -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 2: The iOS Database: SQLite -- What Is SQLite? -- The SQLite Library -- SQLite and Core Data -- Building a Simple Database -- Designing the Database -- Creating the Database -- Populating the Database -- Tools to Visualize the SQLite Database -- Connecting to Your Database -- Starting the Project -- The Model Class -- The DBAccess Class -- Parameterized Queries -- Writing to the Database -- Displaying the Catalog -- Viewing Product Details -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 3: Displaying Your Data: The UITableView -- Customizing the Table View -- Table View Cell Styles -- Adding Subviews to the contentView -- Subclassing UITableViewCell -- Implementing Sections and an Index -- Implementing Search -- Optimizing Table View Performance -- Reusing Existing Cells -- Opaque Subviews -- Custom Drawn Cells with drawRect -- UI Conventions for Accessory Views -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 4: User Interface Elements -- Building Your Interface with Storyboards -- Starting the Storyboard Example Application -- Adding the Sub-detail Screen to the Storyboard -- Adding a Modal Screen to the Storyboard.

Displaying Master/Detail Data with the Split View Controller -- Introducing the UISplitViewController -- The UISplitViewControllerDelegate Protocol -- Starting the Split View Sample Application -- Building the Detail Interface -- Adding Surveys with the Master/Detail View -- Displaying Data in a Popover -- Building the InfoViewController -- Displaying the UIPopoverController -- Gesture Recognizers -- The UIGestureRecognizer Class -- Using Gesture Recognizers -- File Sharing Support -- Enable File Sharing in the Sample Application -- Serializing the Survey Data Array -- Deserializing and Loading the Survey Data Array -- Sharing the Data -- Moving Forward -- Part II: Managing Your Data with Core Data -- Chapter 5: Introducing Core Data -- The Basics of Core Data -- The Core Data Architecture -- The Core Data Stack -- SQLite and Core Data -- Core Data and iCloud -- Data Protection -- Using Core Data: A Simple Task Manager -- Creating the Project -- Examining the Template Code -- Modifying the Template Code -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 6: Modeling Data in Xcode -- Modeling Your Data -- Defining Entities and Their Attributes -- Adding Relationships Between Entities -- Creating Fetched Properties and Fetch Request Templates -- Creating Custom NSManagedObject Subclasses -- Implementing Validation Rules -- Implementing Default Values -- Creating the Tasks Model -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 7: Building a Core Data Application -- The Tasks Application Architecture -- The Data Model -- The Class Model -- The User Interface -- Coding the Application -- MasterViewController and the Basic UI -- Generating the Managed Object Subclasses -- Adding and Viewing Tasks -- Building the ViewTaskController -- Changes to the MasterViewController -- Building the Editing Controllers -- Editing Text with the EditTextViewController.

Setting Priorities with the EditPriorityViewController -- Adding and Editing Locations with the EditLocationViewController -- Modifying Dates with the EditDateController -- Finishing Up the Editing Controllers -- Displaying Results in the MasterViewController -- Sorting Results with NSSortDescriptor -- Filtering Results with NSPredicate -- Generating Grouped Tables Using the NSFetchedResultsController -- Implementing Custom Managed Objects -- Coding a Dynamic Property -- Defaulting Data at Runtime -- Validating a Single Field -- Multi-field Validation -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 8: Core Data-Related Cocoa Features -- Key-Value Coding -- Keys and Keypaths -- Setting Values Using Keys -- Collection Operators -- Additional Considerations When Using KVC -- Key-Value Observing -- Observing Changes to an Object -- Automatic and Manual Implementations of KVO -- Key-Value Observing Example -- Using NSPredicate -- Creating Predicates -- Using Predicates -- Sort Descriptors -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 9: Core Data Migration and Performance -- Model Versioning and Schema Migration -- Model Versioning -- Lightweight Migration -- Generating a Mapping Model -- Safely Threading with Core Data -- Designing for Threading -- Threading and Core Data -- Threading with NSOperation -- Core Data Threading Example -- Core Data Performance -- Faulting -- Data Store Types -- Storing Binary Data -- Entity Inheritance -- Runtime Performance -- Managing Changes with the Fetched Results Controller -- Performance Analysis Using Instruments -- Starting Instruments -- The Instruments Interface -- The Core Data Instruments -- Moving Forward -- Part III: Application Integration Using Web Services -- Chapter 10: Working with XML on the iPhone -- iOS SDK and the Web -- Web Application Architecture -- Synchronous Data Retrieval -- The URL Loading System -- Web Access Sample.

Requesting Data from the Server -- XML and the iPhone SDK -- Brief Overview of XML -- Parsing XML with NSXML Parser -- Extending the Example, Parsing the XML -- Generating XML with libxml -- XML Generation Sample -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services -- Network Application Architecture -- Two-Tier Architecture -- Three-Tier Architecture (n-tier) -- Application Communication -- Introducing Web Services -- SOAP Messaging -- The REST Protocol -- Example 1: Location-Based Search -- Starting Out -- Building the Interface -- Core Location -- The Local Search API -- Using the Search Bar -- Handling the Web Service Response -- Example 2: Content Analysis -- Getting Started -- Building the User Interface -- Implementing the POST Call -- Receiving the XML Response -- Parsing the Response XML -- Finishing Up -- Moving Forward -- Appendix A: Tools for Troubleshooting Your Applications -- Instruments -- Starting Instruments -- The Trace Document -- Objective-C Memory Management -- Sample Memory Leak Application -- Analyzing a Memory Leak in Instruments -- The Static Analyzer -- Index -- Advertisement.