Beginning iOS Storyboarding with Xcode: Easily Design and Develop Your App, from Concept and Vision to Code

Chapter 3

Storyboarding with MapView

For your second Storyboarding app, you’ll build a really fun Navigation-Based Application that uses MapKit and CoreLocation frameworks. You’ll use Flickr as a data source for retrieving photos taken around a specific location and annotate them on a MapView. The Storyboard topics include setting different transition types for segues, building Storyboard scenes utilizing MapView and a static TableView, and initializing segue transitions to other views from MapView’s callouts. We will also demonstrate several handy programming techniques, such as dealing with NSURL and parsing some basic JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data received from a remote server, which has become a great deal simpler with the release ...