Can anyone suggest the best way to implement the offline map with following features.
Add MKOverlayView with local static Map image
Restrict to zoom outside the MKOverlay area
Google Map should not appear on the screen
Add multiple annotations of some fixed locations
Tracking & rotating
I have used Mapkit framework to start of with & already added MKOverlayView in it. Now while adding few fixed annotations it doesn't allow to add without internet.
I don't think all above things can be achieved only using Mapkit framework. So can anyone suggest me the exact solution for it ?
Any suggestions of hints will be appreciated.
Thanks.
It is possible to make map kit load map contents from a private map database. I don't remember if this is new in iOS 6 or 7. I want to say iOS 7. There was a WWDC session where an Apple engineer set up a private map as a demo.
Usually you'd host the map on a server and have your app download map tiles from the server. In your case you'd have it load tiles from a local directory on the device. However, map content gets big fast. You'd only be able to cover fairly modest areas before the file sizes of your map content became prohibitively large.
I would recommend that you look into MBXMapKit:
http://mapbox.com/mbxmapkit
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So here is the scenario,
I am working on this piece where direction tab holding the map and there is a pin on address and callout bubble is automatically been shown as view appears. if you click button get driving directions it take user to apple maps for direction.
As this map is static I was thinking instead of download every time on when view appears, Is it possible to Cache the map, let say 1 sq Kilomerters or the area which is shown in the view.
Apple caches the map for you.
If the user will not load other map data, it will be in the cache.
You cannot force your part of the map to stay in the cache.
Edit:
I tried it with disabling wlan, so the device cannot load the map data anymore from net. It looks like it is loading, but this is more a building up ob the map data.
it shows the map data previously loaded, but cannot load new one.
No, there is no way to control the caching in MapKit. Check out the Mapbox iOS SDK or MBXMapKit.
I am building an app in which I have to highlight some countries dynamically in the world map.
In short I want to customize the whole view of ios maps as shown in the images.
can this be done using MapKit or is there any other method. Thanks in advance
You want to look into the Mapbox iOS SDK which will allow you to do this and more with a MapKit-like API. In particular, you will want to quickly make a custom map with TileMill using the provided Natural Earth data set for world country borders, enable UTFGrid interactivity so that the tapped regions can be identified, and use the RMShape class on an RMAnnotation onto the map view to add/color country polygons as needed. This sounds a little complex but the tools exist, are entirely free and open source, and I can help you with this process.
I'm trying to create a menu for a local multi-player game that dynamically updates when peers become available on the network.
The interface I want to implement is a UIScrollView, where each page displays information about a peer. Ideally, these pages are added and removed when a peer's availability changes.
I have looked through several tutorials using UIScrollView, but they all seem to pull page information from a plist or pre-loaded array.
What I want must be possible; weather app behaves in a similar manner, dynamically adding or deleting location pages. I'm not sure where to turn for further help, though. How do I dynamically update my scroll view's contents as outside events occur?
I decided to go with UICollectionView instead, it seems to provide a better method of implementation for what I'm trying to accomplish. Thanks!
Have a look at this Ray Wenderlich Tutorial.
I've used it as a basis for doing a paged scroll and the mechanism is simple enough to extend to whatever dynamic scheme you would like.
You can check this site for Multiple Tutorials & examples for UIScrollview. The link:
is Here..
I am sure, you'll able to find some good code for your need. Hope it works for you.
I am in the process of developing a thumbnail MKMapView to show a singular point on the map. However, as the thumbnail is only 70x61px, the google logo takes up a large proportion of the map.
Please can you tell me a way of using the MKMapView so that the google logo is less visible or can't been seen, but avoiding app rejection, or any alternatives to using the MKMapView?
Thanks in advanced.
How it looks at the moment:
Have you looking into the Google Maps Static API? It returns regular jpeg maps rather than interactive ones. You might be able to craft a URL that gets you a small enough image for your thumbnail. I don't know whether that would be ok according to their license or not.
Start developing with the iOS 6 beta. There are significant changes to MapKit that removes Google as the data provider (and thus their logo). The final version of iOS 6 and it's SDK will be released in the next couple of weeks. So you will also be good to go submitting an iOS 6 app soon.
What is the best way to create a numeric pad like the one Apple uses in the telephone app?
I would say just create an array of UIButton objects so that you can utilize UIControlStateSelected and the other button states by using different images for different states.
Another idea is to create something similar to that entire keypad in Photoshop, and then tile it into 12 images using http://www.mikelin.ca/blog/2010/06/iphone-splitting-image-into-tiles-for-faster-loading-with-imagemagick/
That would take some of the work out of get all the images to flow nicely together.
By the way, I just forgot about these until just a minute ago... they have some of the UI graphics from the iPhone and iPad in high res PSD file:
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/
and
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/08/12/iphone-4-gui-psd-retina-display/
and
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/06/14/iphone-gui-psd-v4/
I implemented a KeypadView, that is customizable via a delegate.
This github repository has the KeypadView and a delegate-implementation.
As I am still beginner in the field of iOS development I would appreciate, if you share your thoughts with me.