© Jeffrey Linwood 2020
J. LinwoodBuild Location Apps on iOS with Swifthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6083-8_1

1. Creating Your First MapKit App

Jeffrey Linwood1 
(1)
Austin, TX, USA
 

This book will be project based – starting out simple and then getting more complicated. With that in mind, our first iOS app will only be one screen that displays a map. That map will have one pin on it, with the location of my city, Austin, Texas. Feel free to use your own town for this example, of course!

Getting started

The first step is to make sure that you have a recent version of Xcode (at the time of writing, Xcode 11) installed on your Mac. If you’re using earlier versions of Xcode, this code may not compile, and you may not be able to follow directions. Xcode ...

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