<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Master iCloud data management for Mac OS X 10.8 and iOS hands-on, through two start-to-finish projects!</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Leading Apple data management author Jesse Feiler introduces all facets of iCloud data management, fully leveraging key improvements in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Data management is one of the most challenging areas of iCloud development: Feiler's <I> <B> <I>Learning iCloud Data Management</I> </B> </I>helps you understand the issues, choose the right technologies, and implement them quickly and successfully -- delivering friendly, efficient, and highly-usable apps that seamlessly "round-trip" between iOS and OS X. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">You'll first build a complete iOS app enabling an employee to photograph a maintenance problem, identify its location with GPS, use interface features to describe it and type further details, store data in a Core Data store, store user preferences in KVC storage, and store checkbox titles in a property list. Next, you'll build an OS X app that syncs with your iOS app, enabling a manager to schedule maintenance, using the Address Book and Calendar APIs to access data that has already been synced for this user -- and thereby demonstrating the "round trip" between iOS and OSX devices. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Through these projects, you'll learn all you need to know to integrate user data into iOS and OS X apps; to structure and sync app data across devices and operating systems; to create iCloud app libraries, and much more.</P>