Question

I’m new to Core Data. I’m creating an app that will allow a user to add a document importing/exporting from/to either Dropbox, Mail (haven’t figured that out), or the camera or photo library.

I see in CoreDataRecipes that Apple creating an entity for image and have a relationship to recipes. And their PhotoPicker app the camera part is a little ridiculous in my opinion. Cool but not practical. Plus they’re not using Core Data.

I just have a table view, an add button at the top, the user will be prompted to choose any of the options mentioned, add a title, and that title added to the table view. Hope all that is clear, I’m trying to be brief. In a way I want to do this part of the app like a scanner app.

So my question is, do I really need to create an entity for the image? Or can I just go about figuring how to do all this?

Thanks in advance for any help or info you can provide.

Answer 1

In my case, I kept the images out of sql store altogether and just saved the images in the application’s /Cache folder. I then stored a filename in my entity in core data which allowed me to access the image.