At a Glance; Chapter 1: Here We Go Round Again; What This Book Is; What You Need To Know; What You Need Before You Can Begin; What's In This Book; Chapter 2: Core Data: What, Why, and How; A Brief History of Core Data; Creating a Core Data Application; Core Data Concepts and Terminology; The Data Model; Entities; Properties; Attributes; Relationships; Fetched Properties; Fetch Requests; Configurations; The Data Model Class: NSManagedObjectModel; The Persistent Store and Persistent Store Coordinator; Reviewing the Data Model; Managed Objects; Key-Value Coding; Managed Object Context

Saves On TerminateLoad Data from the Persistent Store; The Fetched Results Controller; Creating a Fetched Results Controller; The Fetched Results Controller Delegate Methods; Will Change Content Delegate Method; Did Change Contents Delegate Method; Did Change Object Delegate Method; Did Change Section Delegate Method; Retrieving a Managed Object From the Fetched Results Controller; Creating and Inserting a New Managed Object; Deleting Managed Objects; Putting Everything in Context; Chapter 3: A Super Start: Adding, Displaying, and Deleting Data; Setting Up the Xcode Project; Adding a Scene

Scenes and SeguesStoryboard Document Outline; Application Architecture; Designing the View Controller Interface; Creating HeroListController; Making the Connections and Outlets; Navigation Bar Buttons; Tab Bar and User Defaults; Designing the Data Model; Adding an Entity; Editing the New Entity; Adding Attributes to the Hero Entity; Adding the Name Attribute; Attribute Types; The Integer Data Types; The Decimal, Double, and Float Data Types; The String Data Type; The Boolean Data Type; The Date Data Type; The Binary Data Type; The Transformable Data Type; Setting the name Attribute Type

Adding the Rest of the AttributesDeclaring the Fetched Results Controller; Implementing the Fetched Results Controller; Fetched Results Controller Delegate Methods; Making It All Work; Error Handling; Implementing Edit and Add; Coding the Table View Data Source and Delegate; Sorting the Table View; Loading the Fetch Request at Launch; Let'Er Rip; Done, but Not Done; Chapter 4: The Devil in the Detail View; View Implementation Choices; Creating the Detail View Controller; Wiring Up the Segue; HeroDetailController; Detail View Challenges; Controlling the Table Structure with Property Lists

Property Lists ExplainedModeling Table Structure with a Property List; Defining the Table View via Property List; Parsing the Property List; Pushing the Details; Showing the Details; Editing the Details; Editing Mode in the Detail View; Creating a Custom UITableViewCell Subclass; Saving Your Changes; Specialized Input Views; DatePicker SuperDBEditCell Subclass; Using the DatePicker SuperDBEditCell Subclass; Implementing a Selection Picker; Devil's End; Chapter 5: Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning; About Data Models; Data Models Are Compiled