I have been working on an ios application which I decided to use the new SwiftData architecture, and I now have realized that SwiftData does not support public or shared databases using SwiftData.
I am a new and upcoming Swift developer, who has been self learning the Apple Swift technology. I just learned in this forum that Swift Data does not support Public and Shared Data and I also understand that no plans that have been announced to addressed this feature in the IOS 18 release time frame.
The use case for my application is to implement a social type application, something like applications including X, facebook, etc. These type of applications appear to use Public, Shared and Private data in various existing Apple application.
I would like to complete an application using Swift using ICloud, but I must assume that these current social applications are using other technologies. I am assuming you can do this in Core Data, but my understanding is Apple is asking that we use Swift Data to replace core data. I also am assuming that Swift data is built on core data technology layers. So ... to me it seems hopeful, somehow, to accomplish this using IOS 17 and follow the recommend Swift Data Path.
What are my options for completing these data objectives in IOS? I hope I am addressing these questions in the proper and best forum? Much thanks for any suggestions.
It has been a little annoying to me how the technologies fork and then you have parallel paths to the same thing but with different obstacles in the paths. I haven't even had a chance to touch SwiftData. It's tough to try to master something before the replacement is introduced. The nature of tech, I guess. But CoreData has NSPersistantCloudKitContainer where the databaseScope can be set to public. I followed this video and it works great for my use case and scale. Although I would think a typical social media app would be more server side intensive and require server side logic.
