iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK

Summary

This chapter covered Core Location and MapKit. It described how to set up Core Location, how to check for available services, how to deal with user permissions, and how to acquire the device’s current location.

Next, this chapter explained how to use MapKit to display locations on a map using standard and custom annotations. The chapter covered how to display more detail about an annotation in a callout, and how to respond to the user tapping the callout or dragging the annotation on the map. It also explained how to add overlays to a map to highlight map features.

This chapter then described how to use the geocoder to get latitude and longitude information from a street address, or to get address information from a latitude and longitude ...