Core Data Integrations

See your photos, files, notes, and more across all your devices. They’re safe, up to date, and available wherever you are. If you lose a device, use Find My iPhone on iCloud.com to locate it, turn on Lost Mode, or erase it remotely. Securely store your files in iCloud Drive so you can share them with friends and colleagues. Add or edit photos and videos on one device, see them on all your devices.

Writing Swift code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and Swift includes modern features developers love. Swift code is safe by design and produces software that runs lightning-fast. Swift is the result of the latest research on programming languages, combined with decades of experience building Apple platforms. Named parameters are expressed in a clean syntax that makes APIs in Swift even easier to read and maintain. Even better, you don’t even need to type semi-colons. Inferred types make code cleaner and less prone to mistakes, while modules eliminate headers and provide namespaces. To best support international languages and emoji, Strings are Unicode-correct and use a UTF-8 based encoding to optimize performance for a wide-variety of use cases. You can even write concurrent code with simple, built-in keywords that define asynchronous behavior, making your code more readable and less error-prone.

​CloudKit is a cloud framework that enables developers to store app data in iCloud and keep it synchronized across devices and the web. It offers automatic syncing across several devices and web platforms. By organizing apps in containers, CloudKit ensures each app's data remains siloed, preventing entanglement with other apps. Specialized databases and zones allow for easy separation of app information by access type or function. Developers can configure fields in private CloudKit databases to be encrypted, ensuring data protection in storage and during transport. The CloudKit Console provides a web-based control panel to view server activity, manage containers, maintain database schemas, and edit test data throughout the development lifecycle. It also offers telemetry charts to measure performance, reliability, and usage, as well as logs for analyzing app performance while maintaining user privacy.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. JSON is built on two structures: 1. A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. 2. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence. These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another.

Objective-C is the primary programming language you use when writing software for OS X and iOS. It’s a superset of the C programming language and provides object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Objective-C inherits the syntax, primitive types, and flow control statements of C and adds syntax for defining classes and methods. It also adds language-level support for object graph management and object literals while providing dynamic typing and binding, deferring many responsibilities until runtime. When building apps for OS X or iOS, you’ll spend most of your time working with objects. Those objects are instances of Objective-C classes, some of which are provided for you by Cocoa or Cocoa Touch and some of which you’ll write yourself.