Painless Imports With AFIncrementalStore

Painless Imports With AFIncrementalStore

Before taking this advice, please see my follow-up. AFIncrementalStore (AFIS) is a brilliant bit of open source code from Mattt Thompson. It is a great help in synchronizing a remote data source and local data storage handled with Core Data. Its magic is turning the...
Mixing Inferred and Custom Core Data migrations

Mixing Inferred and Custom Core Data migrations

Migrating between Core Data models is simple – until you need to make changes more complex than adding an entity or attribute.  A migration step like deriving data from two columns for a new attribute (such as combining firstName and lastName into normalizedName for...

Alternatives to Apple’s iCloud Core Data Syncing

It’s no secret that Apple’s implementation of iCloud syncing for Core Data has issues. Check out episode 12 of Debug for a great discussion and check out the show notes for a number of links to blogs that go into even more detail. With WWDC around the...