Post Description

This course shows iOS developers how to add location awareness and maps to Apple iPhone and iPad applications. Discover how to show customers and clients where you're located and share directions with them.

Author Véronique Brossier covers the basic purpose of the Core Location and MapKit frameworks and how to integrate their services with your existing applications. Véronique shows how to center a map on a location, add annotations, create overlays, and zoom and navigate around maps. The course also covers how to leverage live location data such as course and speed and modify it when necessary.
Topics include:

    Displaying maps
    Reviewing the geographic coordinate system in MapKit
    Centering the map on the user location
    Adding interactivity to annotations
    Creating overlays with shapes and lines
    Starting and stopping location services
    Defining the distance between two locations
    Implementing forward or reverse geocoding