My habit tracker app, built as a JSON tutorial exercise with UserDefaults persistence, has motivated me to tackle a more substantial Core Data app for teachers to record student reward tickets. I outline the planned design with Tickets and Students entities, searchable student records, and categorised ticket types. Outstanding data problems include importing student and category data via JSON from a local school webserver, and exporting records as PDF or text files...
I muse on a potential future project, a simple accounting app, and whether Google’s Firebase/Firestore could serve as its backend. After watching some CodeWithChris videos on the topic, I conclude that a local SQLite database with iCloud syncing is probably the more realistic approach, though a cloud database would partly address the syncing complications...
