I'm creating a simple find one of our locations app for iOS 4, for which I have a list of >70 places, complete with addresses, business hours, etc. Is it better to put all of this data in one large plist or many small ones?
Better to use one large plist or many small plists when developing for iOS?
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Core Data or sqlite would probably be best, but between the two options you mention, I'd favor one large plist over many small ones.  Maintaining and tracking 70 files is probably much more error prone than one, and the loading code would be much easier with one also (you can load the whole file into a big NSArray or NSDictionary with only a couple lines of code).