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Asked: 2026-06-04T05:56:57+00:00

I’m designing a new app for iPad for a small company. This app will

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I’m designing a new app for iPad for a small company. This app will use Core Data to store a local database and a database of products and prices. The last database needs to be always up to date since the prices can change.

This company, has a Excel file to keep this database of prices. So they don’t have a SQL db to which I can interact from my app.

One option could be to export the Excel file in CVS and put that file in their server (accessible by internet). Then my app should parse the file.

I don’t like very much this idea, though.

Do you have any suggestion?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here are a couple of options for you:

    1. Use Google Doc as the intermediary. When the pricing Excel is updated by someone, simply upload the updated Excel to Google Docs. From your iPad app, you can read the latest data via the Goole API. If the company is up for it, they can move to Google Doc altogether and just modify the online Google Spreadsheet directly.

    2. Use services like StackMob as the intermediary. You will have to write a tool to sync the pricing Excel with SrackMob but you can easily access the data via StackMob’s iOS SDK.

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