How to Use Cocoa Bindings and Core Data in a Mac App
This is a blog post by Andy Pereira, a software developer at USAA in San Antonio, TX, and freelance iOS and OS X developer. Lately we’re starting to write more Mac app development tutorials on raywenderlich.com, since it’s a natural “next step” for iOS developers to learn! In our previous tutorial series by Ernesto Garcia, […] By Andy Pereira.
Where To Go From Here?
Here is the complete project from the above tutorial.
The app is complete at this point, but here are a few things that you might want to try as additional challenges:
- Learn how to use View-based cells with bindings. While it isn’t difficult, it is different from what you’ve done here. And fun :]
- Add a Search Field to the interface that would allow a user to search the table for bugs. You can do this without adding a single line of code using Bindings. You won’t bind “Value”, but rather, you’ll bind “Predicate.” Leave “Model Key Path” empty; “Predicate Format” is where you will want to use: name contains[c] $value.
I hope you’ve enjoyed learning about Cocoa Bindings and Core Data in Mac apps! If you have any comments or questions, please join the forum discussion below!
This is a blog post by Andy Pereira, a software developer at USAA in San Antonio, TX, and freelance iOS and OS X developer.