8. Preloading Data
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In Chapter 7, “Picker Views,” you focused on configuring user interface elements bound to Core Data objects. As a result, the main functionality of Grocery Dude is now in place. This chapter will dive back into the data model as preloading default data is explained and demonstrated. There are several approaches to providing default data with an application. In some cases, it makes sense to just import data directly in code, as you’ve experienced in previous chapters. A more advanced technique is to generate a persistent store from an XML file. The resulting persistent store can then be shipped with the application and inserted as the initial persistent store before Core ...
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