
Geolocation in iOS
Mobile Positioning and Mapping on iPhone and iPad
Alasdair Allan(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. November 2012
Book
111 pages
978-1-4493-0844-5 (ISBN)
Description
Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications. In this concise hands-on guide, author Alasdair Allan (Learning iOS Programming) takes you deep inside Apple's Core Location framework, Map Kit, and other iOS tools, using illustrative examples and sample Objective-C code. Learn how to build location-aware apps for both iPhones and iPads, using code that detects hardware features and then adjusts your app's behavior.
If you're a programmer with iOS experience, or a Mac developer familiar with Objective-C, this book helps you get off to a solid start in location-based app development.
You'll learn about:
* Core Location: Understand the significant-change location service and geo-fencing capabilities
* Map Kit: Embed maps into your application's views
* Magnetometer: Use the on-board sensor as a digital compass
* Geocoding capabilities: Translate geographic coordinates into place names, and vice versa
* Heat maps: Get a code walkthrough for displaying these maps on top of a standard MapKit view
* Third-party SDKs: Add unique geo-location capabilities to your app from SkyHook Wireless, MapBox, and other providers
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-0844-5 (9781449308445)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, where he is building an autonomous, distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. He also runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud-based services and distributed sensor networks.
Content
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Core Location
- Chapter 3: Map Kit
- Chapter 4: Digital Compass
- Chapter 5: Geocoding
- Chapter 6: Drawing Heat Maps
- Chapter 7: Further Information and Third-Party SDKs
- Colophon