At the core of developing a seamless and collaborative data sharing experience for Apple’s platforms is a thorough knowledge of CloudKit. In this course, CloudKit Fundamentals, you’ll learn to leverage Apple’s flagship framework to achieve your app’s remote data storage and data sharing requirements. First, you’ll learn how to configure CloudKit in your Xcode project and how to save, query, update, and delete data that your users store in iCloud. Next, you’ll explore how to synchronize data across a user’s devices. Finally, you’ll discover how to handle CloudKit errors, test your app on physical devices, and deploy to production. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of CloudKit that will help you provide a fluid, interactive data sharing experience.
Author Name: Andrew Bancroft
Author Description:
Andrew is a people-driven, creative, impactful developer and teacher with more than 15 years of experience helping others succeed with technology. He has embraced Swift for iOS development since day zero, and loves equipping developers to succeed at building iOS apps with Swift. Andrew is a Principle Data Architect for the Noble Research Institute, an agricultural research organization located in the heart of southern Oklahoma. His day job keeps him busy leading Noble’s efforts to make the most… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Setting up CloudKit
  28mins
• Modeling and Saving Data
  26mins
• Querying, Displaying, Updating, and Deleting Data
  51mins
• Synchronizing Data Across Devices
  54mins
• Modeling Relationships Between Record Types
  20mins
• Planning for Production
  27mins