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iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example - Beginner's Guide

By : Zeeshan Chawdhary
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iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example - Beginner's Guide

By: Zeeshan Chawdhary

Overview of this book

<p>From weather apps which give you a forecast based on your current location to fitness apps which track your speed and distance travelled. From Google Maps to Foursquare. Increasing mobility and social networking has made location awareness an integral aspect of modern iPhone applications. <br /><br />This book will teach you everything you need to know about building iPhone location aware apps, from simple Google maps to complex region monitoring and augmented reality. Build five real world location aware apps and get a taste of HTML5-based mobile app development.<br /><br />The book begins by explaining behind-the-scenes working of location-based systems, including GPS. Explore in depth iOS Core Location and the MapKit Framework, using examples depicting each capability of the respective frameworks. Having learnt about location and maps, you will build five location-based apps using the APIs and SDKs publicly available. The book has everything for a beginner as well as advanced users, with chapters devoted to advanced topics such as push notifications, geo fencing and augmented reality.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Time for action — location debugging


Open the Hello Location application we created in Chapter 1 and run the application.

  1. 1. If you are running your app on the iOS Simulator, then go to the Debug | Location Menu option where you can simulate multiple location inputs for your app, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. If you are running your app on a connected device, you need to go to the Product | Debug | Simulate Location menu option in the Xcode 4 menu bar.

  3. 3. Try changing to different locations and testing the app by clicking the Detect Location button in the app.

Location data is reported in your application via the Core Location's Delegate object, CLLocationManagerDelegate. Based on the location service type used in your app, the corresponding Core Location Delegate function has to be implemented by your application to catch the appropriate location change event. We will look at it as we inspect the different Core Location Services.

What just happened?

We simulated location information...