Building iOS Apps with CloudKit

Course details

CloudKit—the back-end solution from Apple—is easy to use and cost effective compared to its competitors. Leveraging CloudKit enables developers to securely store and sync data across multiple iOS apps and devices. This course covers all the concepts involved in creating a CloudKit-powered app. Instructor Doron Katz shows how to use the dashboard and work with storage objects such as containers, databases, zones, and records. Using a hands-on project, Doron shows how to design a database schema and read and write to the cloud, as well as create entity relationships and implement subscriptions to be notified when data changes. Plus, learn about CloudKit security, testing, and debugging, and advanced concepts such as offline caching and web integration.

Learning objectives
Enabling CloudKit
CloudKit architectures
Containers and databases
Designing a database schema
Creating, updating, and deleting data
Adding relationships in CloudKit
Subscribing to data changes
Managing deployments
Testing and debugging
Error handling and offline caching

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Supercharge your iOS apps with CloudKit
02 - What you should know

1. Introduction to iCloud and CloudKit

03 - iCloud overview
04 - The rise of MBaaS
05 - CloudKit overview
06 - Why CloudKit

2. Get Started with CloudKit

07 - Enabling CloudKit
08 - CloudKit dashboard
09 - Development and production environments
10 - Get to know the project

3. CloudKit Fundamentals

11 - CloudKit architecture - Containers and databases
12 - CloudKit architecture - Records and zones
13 - Containers
14 - Public, private, and shared databases
15 - Record zones, record types, and records
16 - Challenge - Custom containers
17 - Solution - Custom containers

4. Work with Databases

18 - Design a database schema
19 - Query and retrieval dashboard
20 - Query and retrieval code - Note object
21 - Query and retrieval code - MasterViewController
22 - Create and update data
23 - Delete data
24 - Challenge - Predicates
25 - Solution - Predicates

5. Work with Relationships

26 - Relationships in CloudKit overview
27 - Adding a relationship in CloudKit - Fetching
28 - Adding a relationship in CloudKit - Adding
29 - Introduction to Subscriptions
30 - Subscribing to data changes
31 - Enabling push notifications

6. Manage CloudKit

32 - Overview of CloudKit Security
33 - Adding CloudKit Security privileges
34 - Manage deployment across development and production
35 - Test and debug CloudKit

7. Advanced CloudKit

36 - Explore CloudKit web services
37 - Best practices - Data modeling
38 - Best practices - Error handling and offline caching

Conclusion

39 - Next steps