Another excellent week to be an iOS developer, and some big news in the department of iOS game development with the release of Cocos2D V1.0.0 and the opening of the Moai SDK beta to everyone. Also some great open source libraries and tutorials were shared. If you have written a tutorial, open source library or […]
Tag: core data
If you’ve developed with Ruby On Rails or similar framework then you are familiar with ActiveRecord, and you are familiar with how useful ActiveRecord is. I remember thinking how cool it was when I first played with RoR and began using ActiveRecord. For those unfamiliar with RoR here’s the Wikipedia definition for Active Record: Active […]
Welcome to the sixth iteration of the open source iPhone and iPad apps list for those seeking app source code. For those that have seen similar listings on other sites using the exact wordings, and links below welcome to the source for the original list. Also included are some open source iPad apps, and universal […]
Core Data is a very powerful library, and easy to use, but it’s so different from database libraries you have used in the past that it may seem frustrating and tedious when you first start using it. Fortunately, Ray Wenderlich,the creator of the Space Game Starter Kit and co-author of the Learning Cocos2D book, has written an excellent […]
Awhile I wrote an article about using Core Data vs. SQLite. In that article I didn’t delve into any of the technical differences about the two technologies, but just went into some of the reasons why you might want to implement one vs. the other. I found an excellent article that covers the more technical […]
Since posting an article about iPhone SQLite vs. Core Data, I’ve seen a large number of searches, and had a few questions e-mailed to me about Core Data. First off, I’d like to mention that there is no easy way to import a SQLite database into core data directly although Core Data can use a SQLite […]
Prior to the release of OS 3.0 on the iPhone, SQLite was the choice for database implementation on the iPhone. Since the addition of core data to the iPhone SDK, using SQLite with low level C function calls is no longer the only option, and now a question often asked is about which to use. […]