Problem

Given a generic iOS application ‘Blog’ with data model as below:

We want to prepopulate data for ‘Categories’ table in our SQLite database.

Solution

This solution uses the approach described in Core Data on iOS 5 Tutorial: How To Preload and Import Existing Data, we will create an OS X Command Line Tool application, which will reference the data model in our ‘Blog’ application and prepopulate the data. Except we automate the building process.

Problem

Manage 3rd party libraries in Objective-C projects.

Solution

Use Cocoapods for library management in Objective-C projects.