7. Core Location

iOS has rich capabilities for both locating a device and presenting location information. Through the Core Location framework, you can take advantage of a variety of underlying technologies for retrieving position information. Along with the MapKit framework (covered in Chapter 8, “MapKit”) for presenting such information on maps, you can easily add location-based features to your applications. This chapter presents the Core Location framework and discusses certain application design considerations for making the best use of it.

Introducing Core Location

The Core Location framework, located in the MonoTouch.CoreLocation namespace, is a framework that provides the position, heading, and course information of a device to your application. ...

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