Peter McIntyre

Today’s theme is data persistence, using plain-file (property list, aka “plist”) and serialized (archives) approaches.

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Coming up in DPS913 / APD601

Thu Jan 26 – adding modal view controllers to a single view app

Tue Jan 31 – tab bar and nav-based apps

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Example apps covered today

Downloadable…

• Notes plist
• Notes archive

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Topic coverage in today’s lab & lecture

Here’s what you can expect today:

Declared properties in Objective-C

Memory management… read the last section, titled “Cocoa memory management introduction”:
Introduction to Cocoa for Seneca ICT students

iOS multi-tasking discussion (post by Fraser Speirs)

Options for persisting data on the device

Introduction to “plist” (property list)

Introduction to “archiving”

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