InterestingPoint

A location-based app written in Swift 2.0 for iOS 9 as part of a beginners series for The Winnipeg iOS Developers meetup group.

NOTE: The following steps are not meant to be a full tutorial as I'm lazy and not going to put that much time in... These are simply my presentation notes which require a fair amount of iOS/Xcode knowledge to follow. I will gladly accept any pull request updating this to a proper tutorial. :)

Master branch build status:

Part 1: Getting started

What our App will do:

• Display Points Of Interest (POI) as both pins on a map and list items in a table.
• Selecting a POI in the table will highlight the corresponding pin on the map.
• Selecting a pin on the map will highlight the corresponding POI in the table.

Step 1: Layout Map UI in IB:

(git tag 1.0) (starting point)

• Add MapView and constraints to POIViewController in main storyboard. Build and run, doesn't work, inspect console error.
• Link MapKit.framework by enabling Maps capability in Project -> Capabilities.
• Enable mapView's 'User Location' in IB; doesn't work, inspect console error.
• Add CLLocationManager to POIViewController and call requestWhenInUseAuth().
• Still fails... check StackOverflow and Apple documentation.
• Add NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription to Info.plist.
• Center map on Winnipeg in viewDidLoad.

Step 2: Show Pins on the Map:

(git tag 2.0)

• Add displayPOIAnnotationsOnMap function and call from viewDidAppear().
• Add MKAnnotation conformance to POI and refactor displayPOIAnnotationsOnMap accordingly.

Step 3: Add UITableView to UI in IB:

(git tag 3.0)

• Add UITableView over MapView.
• Blur tableView background in setupTableView()

Step 4: Update MapView's Visible Region:

(git tag 4.0)

• Map center should be center of visible region rather than center of screen.
• Set mapView's bottom layout margin to tableView height in setupMapView().

Step 5: Show POIs in TableView:

(git tag 5.0)

• Set POIViewController as tableView's datasource and delegate.
• Implement tableView's numberOfRows... and cellForRow... functions.
• Select associated mapView annotation on tableView.didSelectRow...
• Set POIViewController as mapView's delegate.
• Select associated tableView row on mapView.didSelectAnnotation...