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Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift

Use Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox to Code Location Aware Mobile Apps

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Authors:
  1. Jeffrey Linwood

    1. Austin, USA

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  • Evolve your apps to allow for locational input and feedback
  • Support multiple servers, including Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox
  • Customize data provided by mapping services to suite your users' needs

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Creating Your First MapKit App

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 1-16

  3. Getting the User’s Location

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 17-26

  4. Displaying Annotations on a MapKit Map

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 27-39

  5. Searching for Points of Interest

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 41-51

  6. Getting Directions with MapKit

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 53-74

  7. Working with Geofences in CoreLocation

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 75-88

  8. Displaying a Map with the Google Maps SDK

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 89-105

  9. Exploring Google Map Views

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 107-119

  10. Using Directions with the Google Directions API

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 121-138

  11. Using Google Places in Your iOS App

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 139-163

  12. Getting Started with the Mapbox SDK

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 165-178

  13. Customizing Map Styles with Mapbox

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 179-192

  14. Working with Datasets in Mapbox Studio

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 193-219

  15. Turn-by-Turn Navigation with Mapbox

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 221-234

  16. Using Offline Maps with Mapbox

    • Jeffrey Linwood
    Pages 235-247

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 249-254
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About this book

Work with Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox in iOS with Swift programming. Guided by practical examples, this book covers all three map frameworks to ensure you properly select which one best suits your iOS app's needs in working with iOS location.

You'll see how Apple's privacy settings apply to a user's location, and how to access that user's location from an application. Once you have access to the user's location, allow your app to display points of interest from Apple's database on the map inside the app, as well as to provide a search through that database by name. 

You can also incorporate turn by turn directions inside your own app to provide routes. Or trigger different functionality or notifications based on locational queues. With Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift, you'll even find out how to provide offline map support for hiking, camping, or other outdoors applications where cell phone service is weak.



What You'll Learn

  • Display points of interest within your own app
  • Work with Apple's privacy settings so pertinent information comes through
  • Trigger functionality based on geographic prompts
  • Create your own custom map styles with Mapbox Studio and display them in the app


Who This Book Is For

Intermediate to advanced Swift programmers who would like to add location based services to their apps.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Austin, USA

    Jeffrey Linwood

About the author

Jeff Linwood is an experienced author who has worked on many iOS and Android apps that use maps or location functionality. He's also taught and mentored college student application teams as they develop their first apps. In teaching, he noticed a lack of good sample applications and tutorials for map and location applications. He'd like to create the definitive book for developers creating these types of apps.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift

  • Book Subtitle: Use Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox to Code Location Aware Mobile Apps

  • Authors: Jeffrey Linwood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6083-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Jeffrey Linwood 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6082-1Published: 13 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6083-8Published: 12 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Apple and iOS

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