iOS SDK: Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location

Shows iOS developers how to add location awareness and maps to iPhone and iPad applications.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