Chapter 9. Working with Location Awareness and Streaming Data
This chapter covers the nuts and bolts of using location on iOS with Facebook and Twitter. We'll also discuss working with streaming APIs.
One of the main trends to have emerged within social applications is adding a location context to user experiences. In the worlds of Facebook and Twitter, this involves letting users check in to places on Facebook or search for nearby Tweets on Twitter, as well as a host of other scenarios. We're going to walk you through the ins and outs of using iOS'sCoreLocation and MapKit libraries to incorporate location and maps into your application, and then use the location information from these libraries to show some location-based features of Facebook ...
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