18 Saving, Loading, and Application States
There are many ways to save and load data in an iOS application. This chapter will take you through some of the most common mechanisms as well as the concepts you need for writing to or reading from the filesystem on iOS.
Archiving
Most iOS applications are really doing one thing: providing an interface for a user to manipulate data. Every object in an application has a role in this process. Model objects, as you know, are responsible for holding on to the data that the user manipulates. View objects simply reflect that data, and controllers are responsible for keeping the views and the model objects in sync. Therefore, when talking about saving and loading data, we are almost always ...
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