What is swiftdata
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SwiftData is a framework introduced in iOS 17 that allows developers to model and persist their app's data across all of Apple's platforms using Swift. It provides a lightweight API that integrates naturally with Swift, enabling developers to define their data schema with minimal additions to their Swift classes. Key features of SwiftData include:
- Persistence: It allows for the storage and retrieval of data across app launches.
- Modeling and Migration: It supports the creation and evolution of data models.
- Graph Management: It helps manage relationships between data entities.
- Synchronization with CloudKit: It can sync data with Apple's CloudKit.
- Custom Data Stores: Developers can use alternative backends like SQLite, remote web services, or JSON files.
- History Tracking: It keeps track of all changes in the data store, useful for syncing with remote services or app extensions.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the following sessions from WWDC 2024:
- Platforms State of the Union
- What’s new in SwiftData
- Create a custom data store with SwiftData
- Track model changes with SwiftData history
These sessions cover various aspects of SwiftData, including its new features, how to adopt it in your app, and how to create custom data stores.
Create a custom data store with SwiftData
Combine the power of SwiftData’s expressive, declarative modeling API with your own persistence backend. Learn how to build a custom data store and explore how to progressively add persistence features in your app. To get the most out of this session, watch “Meet SwiftData” and “Model your schema with SwiftData” from WWDC23.
A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.
What’s new in SwiftData
SwiftData makes it easy to add persistence to your app with its expressive, declarative API. Learn about refinements to SwiftData, including compound uniqueness constraints, faster queries with #Index, queries in Xcode previews, and rich predicate expressions. Join us to explore how you can use all of these features to express richer models and improve performance in your app. To discover how to build a custom data store or use the history API in SwiftData, watch “Create a custom data store with SwiftData” and “Track model changes with SwiftData history”.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Track model changes with SwiftData history
Reveal the history of your model’s changes with SwiftData! Use the history API to understand when data store changes occurred, and learn how to use this information to build features like remote server sync and out-of-process change handing in your app. We’ll also cover how you can build support for the history API into a custom data store.