Building iOS Apps with CloudKit

Learn how to leverage CloudKit—the simple and cost-effective cloud storage solution from Apple—to build your iOS app’s back end.

Introduction

• Supercharge your iOS apps with CloudKit
• What you should know

1. Introduction to iCloud and CloudKit

• iCloud overview
• The rise of MBaaS
• CloudKit overview
• Why CloudKit?

2. Get Started with CloudKit

• Enabling CloudKit
• CloudKit dashboard
• Development and production environments
• Get to know the project

3. CloudKit Fundamentals

• CloudKit architecture: Containers and databases
• CloudKit architecture: Records and zones
• Containers
• Public, private, and shared databases
• Record zones, record types, and records
• Challenge: Custom containers
• Solution: Custom containers

4. Work with Databases

• Design a database schema
• Query and retrieval dashboard
• Query and retrieval code: Note object
• Query and retrieval code: MasterViewController
• Create and update data
• Delete data
• Challenge: Predicates
• Solution: Predicates

5. Work with Relationships

• Relationships in CloudKit overview
• Adding a relationship in CloudKit: Fetching
• Adding a relationship in CloudKit: Adding
• Introduction to Subscriptions
• Subscribing to data changes
• Enabling push notifications

6. Manage CloudKit

• Overview of CloudKit Security
• Adding CloudKit Security privileges
• Manage deployment across development and production
• Test and debug CloudKit

7. Advanced CloudKit

• Explore CloudKit web services
• Best practices: Data modeling
• Best practices: Error handling and offline caching

Conclusion

• Next steps