We will be learning about persistence technologies in iOS. We will cover a variety of ways of persisting and transforming data, and a few common use cases in the iOS ecosystem.

• Learn about persistence technologies in iOS (UserDefaults, Keychain, NSCoding, CoreData, Realm)
• Store and retrieve information locally on your iOS device.
• Store and retrieve sensitive information in iOS.
• Discover, learn and understand the iOS filesystem.

Should be able to:

• Compare and contrast various persistence options such as Core Data, Realm, NSCoder, UserDefaults, Keychain and chose the best options for their project.
• Implement authentication in their apps
• Synchronize information from a server to a local database.
• Deploy, manage and use a relational database
• Write sql queries and perform joins

All students must build:

1. An iOS app with local persistence using CoreData/Realm, UserDefaults and Keychain.

• Week 1

  • Intro to Persistence Technologies in iOS
  • Dependency Management
  • UserDefaults, Keychain and NSCoding
  • FileSystem

• Week 2

  • Project - Document Management
  • Layout Essentials

• Week 3

  • Intro to Database Design in Relational Databases
  • Introduction to SQL

• Week 4

  • CoreData - Intro
  • CoreData - Relationships

• Week 5

  • Project - Course Planner
  • CoreData - Contexts
  • CoreData - NSFetchRequests, NSSortDescriptors & NSFetchedResultsController

• Week 6

  • Realm - Intro
  • Project - Course Planner

To pass the course, students will have:

1. Completed all challenges.
2. Completed the (2) class projects