Application development with Parse using iOS SDK

A practical guide, featuring step-by-step instructions showing you how to use Parse iOS, and handle your data on cloud. If you are a developer who wants to build your applications instantly using Parse iOS as a back end application development, this book is ideal for you. This book will help you to understand Parse, featuring examples to help you get familiar with the concepts of Parse iOS.

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Parse; Parse backend service; Advantages of using Parse; Setting up accounts and applications on Parse; Integrating Parse in an iOS project; Setting up Parse; Summary; Chapter 2: Parse Objects and Queries; Parse objects; PFObject; Operations on Parse objects; Saving objects; Fetching objects; Saving objects offline; Updating objects; Updating counters; Storing data in array format; Deleting objects; Relations and data types; Relations; Data types.

Working with queriesUsing predicates; Adding query constraints; Relational and complex queries; Array-based queries; String-based queries; Relational queries; Counting objects; Compound queries; Caching queries; Summary; Chapter 3: Subclasses and Files; Subclassing PFObject; Customizing properties and methods; Initializing subclasses; Creating queries; Handling files; PFFile; Saving images; Tracking progress; Summary; Chapter 4: Parse Analytics; Integrating Parse analytics; Tracking pages; Clearing all badges; Reading analytics data; Data usage; Advantages of analytics; Summary.

Chapter 5: Push…