What is Core Data?

[mashercakes]

I've read the ADC documentation on this subject (well tried to) but it contains a lot of jargon which means absolutely nothing to me! So could anybody please sum up in laymens' terms what Core Data is and what you actually use it for?

Thanks in advance.

[mashercakes]

OK after arching a video on YouTube of somebody setting up and using Core Data, it seems to be a database. Probably should have guessed that from the name, but the description on the docs is so wordy and overly elaborate that it's totally inaccessible to me :-/

[finefin]

oh I absolutely know what you mean.
sometimes I think the docs are written in swahili.
fortunately we have this in..in.. internetz we can ask...
and eventually someone will answer...

okay. you assume that core data is some kind of database.
but that's not exactly true. it's rather a tool to manage and organize your data without having to know exactly what happens behind the curtain, i.e. it creates the database for you.

The articles on iPhone in Action really helped me to understand...

cheers