Why should I use Core Data for my iPhone app?

Question

I\'m working on my 2nd iPhone app and am curious about Core Data. Time on the project is limited, as is my time overall.

I\'m the only dev and I have a feeling tha

Answer 1

To leverage CoreData, you'll need to know a fair amount of Cocoa technologies, concepts, and patterns. The learning curve is not really steep if you know these things. If it looks steep, I would avoid making it critical to your project, and then just learn during downtime, finally using it once you are comfortable with it. It is definitely not a beginner technology; you'll need a good programming foundation, including Cocoa specific technologies and concepts. A lot of people see it and think it will be easy for them, because they would, could get a lot for free. It's like a code generator, pretty close to useless to somebody who uses it to do just that (churn out code), rather than using it skillfully in response to the problem set.