What are the options for saving data in iOS?

Question

I\'d like to serialize a bunch of data and save it to a file, then be able to load it (naturally) and play it back with a feature I have written. (Sorry if my terminology i

Answer 1

It depends on the data you are writing. If you mostly want to serialize objects, see the NSCoding protocol. If you have some simple data structure that’s not a class, you can store that into a NSDictionary and save it into a plist. And if you have a big chunk of data (like thousands of floats or something like that), you might want to save that using NSData as you already hinted. In any case be sure to read the Archives and Serializations Programming Guide so that you don’t reinvent the wheel.