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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to consume the Eventful API (courtesy eventful.com) and store events locally in the best way using SQLite. We also looked at filtering the events by category.

We looked at how the EventKit framework can be used to add events to our calendar. The new Twitter Framework in iOS 5 was also explored.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Eventful API deep analysis

  • iOS EventKit framework

  • Twitter framework

  • Using the Layar Player (Bonus)

  • Building the PacktEvents app

We learned to build two real life iPhone applications in our last two chapters: a weather app and an events app. Now it is time to learn some advanced iOS concepts such as Core Motion and Notifications. So let's move on to it.