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Michele Fadda
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Michele is currently working as a technical project and program manager at Eggon, an innovative startup in Padua, Italy, and as the director of FWLAB Limited, a UK App development studio. He specializes in skills such as Imperative Programming, Functional programming, Swift, Mobile Application Development. He started programming as a child with Assembly language and has worked for 20 years as a consultant using a variety of languages and technologies. He started developing for iOS with iOS on iOS v.3.0 in 2009. He has also developed many apps as a solo developer and has also participated in numerous projects.
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CloudKit

This section offers a few words on CloudKit.

If while creating a new App, besides enabling Core Data, you also tick the Host in CloudKit option, Xcode will integrate Core Data with CloudKit, allowing your app to be cloud-enabled and automatically synchronized across a user’s devices by means of iCloud.

We will now just briefly discuss the differences in project creation if CloudKit is enabled, and these differences are minor. An extra configuration option will appear in your .xcdatamodeld file, allowing you to specify which entities should be synced with CloudKit.

This is normally a checkbox in the entity’s attribute panel in the data model editor. Instead of NSPersistentContainer, NSPersistentCloudKitContainer will be added to the generated code, which is a subclass of NSPersistentContainer, designed to work with CloudKit.

Xcode will generate code to initialize the CloudKit schema from your Core Data model. This will include creating CloudKit record...

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Michele Fadda

Michele is currently working as a technical project and program manager at Eggon, an innovative startup in Padua, Italy, and as the director of FWLAB Limited, a UK App development studio. He specializes in skills such as Imperative Programming, Functional programming, Swift, Mobile Application Development. He started programming as a child with Assembly language and has worked for 20 years as a consultant using a variety of languages and technologies. He started developing for iOS with iOS on iOS v.3.0 in 2009. He has also developed many apps as a solo developer and has also participated in numerous projects.
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