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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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Using Core Data with SwiftUI

SwiftUI offers several basic mechanisms to interact with Core Data that are easier to use than UIKit.

The @FetchRequest property wrapper allows you to fetch entities from Core Data directly inside your SwiftUI views. It automatically observes the Core Data context, so it will update the view if the data changes.

You can use the @Environment property wrapper to inject NSManagedObjectContext into your SwiftUI view. This is useful for operations such as adding, deleting, or modifying entities.

For more complex scenarios where you want to encapsulate Core Data logic in separate layers, you can use either the @ObservableObject or @StateObject property wrapper, depending on your needs. This approach works well for views that require observing not just Core Data changes but also other types of state or data flow. This is how you can integrate, for instance, NSFetchedResultsController; this is a good choice if you are dealing with a large volume of data...

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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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