Alasdair Allan

Geolocation in IOS

Mobile Positioning and Mapping on iPhone and iPad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications. In this concise hands-on guide, author Alasdair Allan (Learning iOS Programming) takes you deep inside Apple's Core Location framework, Map Kit, and other iOS tools, using illustrative examples and sample Objective-C code. Learn how to build location-aware apps for both iPhones and iPads, using code that detects hardware features and then adjusts your app's behavior. If you're a programmer with iOS experience, or a Mac developer familiar with Objective-C, this book helps you get off to a solid start in location-based app development. You'll learn about: Core Location: Understand the significant-change location service and geo-fencing capabilities Map Kit: Embed maps into your application's views Magnetometer: Use the on-board sensor as a digital compass Geocoding capabilities: Translate geographic coordinates into place names, and vice versa Heat maps: Get a code walkthrough for displaying these maps on top of a standard MapKit view Third-party SDKs: Add unique geo-location capabilities to your app from SkyHook Wireless, MapBox, and other providers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 111
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 179mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9781449308445
• ISBN-10: 1449308449
• Artikelnr.: 33648619

Autorenporträt

Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, where he is building an autonomous, distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. He also runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud-based services and distributed sensor networks.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Core Location
Chapter 3: Map Kit
Chapter 4: Digital Compass
Chapter 5: Geocoding
Chapter 6: Drawing Heat Maps
Chapter 7: Further Information and Third-Party SDKs
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