Question

I’m making a Contacts like App with the following data:

• Contact Name
• Contact Info
• Contact Emails (protected by a password, and this password is part of the Data)
  etc…

I need this information at Application startup, and I’ve searched around and I found out Core Data. But I don’t need Core Data versions, or files, no need to undo/redo, etc… I just need this data “inside” the App. At first I thought about NSUserDefaults, but I’m not sure about that.
How should I save this data?

Answer 1

Core Data is the best approach in my opponion because it’s the most flexible. You could alternatively store the objects in an array and write that out to a file – though not as elegant it should work for a contact like app (since its unlikely that there will be thousands of contacts to manage).