Posts tagged as: MKMapView

Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0 Part 2

December 22nd, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 19 Comments
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Introduction
Back in September I posted a large post going over all the components required to implement the MapKit in your application. The MapKit is a framework introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and allows developers to easily take advantage of Google’s mapping technology. In my first post I go over how to present a map as well as annotate the map with custom badges to highlight points of interest. The MapKit also …

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Introduction to MapKit in iPhone OS 3.0

December 21st, 2009 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 58 Comments

Introduction
Hello everyone. Welcome to another screencast. Today we will be looking into the MapKit, a new API’s made available by Apple in the iPhone OS 3.0 release. The MapKit allows simple access to the map seen in the maps application. Using GoogleMaps as its engine the map kit allows for a developer to make their own custom map interface to fit their own application. Today we will be reviewing the MapView as well as the Map Annotations that can be …

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