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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you create apps, solve problems, and build your portfolio of projects in Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784391379
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Xcode and Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Standard Library and Collections 3. Using Structs and Generics 4. Design Patterns with Swift 5. Multitasking 6. Playground 7. Swift Debugging with Xcode 8. Integrating with Objective-C 9. Dealing with Other Languages 10. Data Access 11. Miscellaneous Index

Creating an SQLite database


Usually, storing information on a mobile app is done with a local database. To do this, it is very common to use SQLite because even if it is a bit limited, this database has some advantages. For example, it is a serverless and a zero configuration database, and is built on iOS and Mac OS X.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to download a SQLite file; therefore, you will need a SQLite client to read this file. So, apart from iFunBox downloaded in the previous chapter, you will also need to download a program, such as SQLiteBrowser (http://sqlitebrowser.org/).

Create a new project called Chapter 10 SQLite, and keep in mind where you have saved this recipe because we are going to complete this in the next recipe.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. When the project is created, click on the General tab, and scroll down until you get to the section Linked Frameworks and Libraries. Click on the plus sign to add a new library, and select libsqlite3.dylib...

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