iOS - Swift - App with pre-loaded data - beginner

After researching for a week, I was not able to figure out specific need that I am trying to find. So decided to post my first question.

Here is what I am trying to achieve. Please guide me with your experience to leverage me up from where I am stuck at. Thanks heaps in advance.

My app: Simple tableView app with custom cell that presents my model (custom class).

Model is "Car" and structured with the following:

• CarName:String


• CarImageName:String


• CarYear:String


• CarManufacturer:String


• Description:String

TableViewUI contains list of cars with image thumbnail, name of the car and year. When you click the car, it will display detailed view on ViewControllerUI with every details.

All together there are about 700 cars currently in my excel sheet and relative images(around 100Mbps) that I would like to use in my app using database.

There are many tutorials and articles relating to SQLite / CoreData but cannot figure out what is most optimized way to fit my purpose. I really want it to be SWIFT by the way.

Can someone please specifically give me advice on following questions?

1. What kind of database should I select for my 700 entry from my existing excel sheet? I can manipulate this data easily into SQL, txt file, XML or any sort if necessary.


2. How do I enter this data into xcode? or How do I import this data into my app?


3. Once data is pre-loaded into my application, is CoreData the way to manage this data?

(If I have wrong terms of understanding here, please forgive my noobness)