(1) Made new CKContainer in the console.
(2) Created macOS app with an iCloud entitlement to the new container.
(3) Inflated the container’s public database with a schema and sample records.
(4) Created separate iOS app with entitlement to same CloudKit container.
(5) Fetched CKRecord objects from CloudKit and displayed results in SwiftUI.

I’ve explored CloudKit as a compliment to Core Data before. But never as a standalone store like this. My main requirement was not using the console for schema and data tasks. I had reluctantly considered cktool cli or cktool.js with some node scripts, but neither of these felt great. A companion Mac app turned out to be a much nicer solution.

Seeing the data appear on the iOS app for the first time was a good moment. I didn’t expect to get this far today!

T-minus 58 days…