A practical overview of iOS MapKit w/ Scott D. Smith

iOS MapKit is a powerful and flexible framework for displaying map and related information in your App. During this talk, you will be provided an overview of MapKit and be introduced to key functionality through presentation of an app built from the ground up. Additional information to help you decide if you want to attend:

Covered

• Overview of Mapkit, focusing on MKMapView and MKMapViewDelegate responsibilities

• The three different MapKit coordinate systems

• Requesting authorization for the ability to show user’s location the iOS 8 way (differs from iOS 7)

• Properly annotating maps with default pins and custom annotations (avoid the pitfalls)

• Adding custom map overlays, drawn using overlay renderers (replaces iOS 7 views), including MKPolyLine, MKCircle and MKPoloygons

• Proximity detection of user location compared to known points on the map

Not covered

• Map/cartography theory and practices

• Advanced map geometry, calculations, and coordinate based mathematics