We learn in lesson 4 of module 5 from the CWC+ iOS Database course, that we can sort our core data on fetch using sortDescriptors, which is an array of keys to sort plus a parameter for whether that sort should be in ascending order or not. In its simplest […]
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So, what did we learn in lesson 3 of module 5 of the CWC+ iOS Dabatases course? Well, firstly, that Xcode creates a lot of dummy code for demonstration purposes that we don’t need to use. More usefully, our main top-level Swift file contains these essential pieces of code: As […]
Lesson 1: Core Data Basics This introduction to Core Data Basics, cleared up a few things for me. I had heard the phrase “Core Data” before but I had completely the wrong idea in my head. ‘Core Data’ is apparently “local data” – i.e., “database data” held locally on the […]
Module 4 continues with Lesson 4, in which we handle user sign-in and create account, using: and: with: and, of course: Lesson 5 In Lesson 5 of the module, we handle using Firestore to keep track of the last lesson / question the user was looking at so that, later, […]
After a brief introductory tutorial in Lesson 1, Lesson 2 sees us prepare the Learning App that we enhanced in Module 2 for authentication. Chris does provide a copy of the Learning App in case we don’t have our own but, of course, I have mine with notes so I’ll […]
In the final lesson from module 3 of the CWC+ iOS Databases course, Chris talks us through setting up Firebase, and our Xcode app, to handle associating data with a user. The primary point of note is that we’ve previously been setting up Cloud Firestore in “test mode”. This can […]
In this lesson of the CWC+ iOS Database course, Chris shows us how to set up our own custom log-in & create user forms to use with Firebase Auth. Creating our own forms eliminates one of the issues I highlighted in the previous post in that we’re not reliant on […]
Lesson 1 : Introduction In the introduction to the Firebase Authentication module from the CWC+ iOS Database course, Chris takes us through the familiar steps of setting up a new Xcode / Firebase project while introducing us to the extra steps needed to enable authentication. With Google making it fairly […]