I am trying to use the google maps api so that I can view the world in a daylight mode/nighttime mode in realtime depending on sunrise/sunset when the user zooms in on a certain region.
I have yet to have any luck, and would really appreciate any advice/tips!
As of right now, Google Maps for iOS SDK nighttime mode is not a feature.
You can track its progress over issue tracker.
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Is there an easy way to make in iOS Google Street View GMSPanormaView's camera follow the device's orientation via data from its motion sensors?
If not, has anyone already done it and can share a code snippet that takes data from CoreMotion, maybe manipulates it to create GMSPanoramaCamera, and passes it to the GMSPanoramaView with animateToCamera:animationDuration:?
Any relevant Android code would also be useful.
Upon checking the Maps SDK for iOS:Internal: Street View, there is no built-in function/implementation for the device orientation/ gyroscope sensor.
According to Ziem's answer you can try implement this by yourself(create function). He also give pointers to study the following:
Set the camera orientation point of view
Animate the camera movements
Reference:
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Github
Using a site they have successfully create a function that will let you browse the Google streetview panoramas with your smartphone/tablet like you were inside it, just by moving your phone like a window to the world.
I would like to create an app, that would show navigation to some marker. It would be best if that navigation could be provided inside an app, however I am not sure if that's possible (at least with MapKit). If my app would launch Apple Maps app for navigation, could my app update destination location? The thing is in most cases my destination should change with time. What are my options?
I done some googling, found that Skobbler a SDK for in app navigation, but it increases app size over 100Mb.
I have done this in an app which takes the coordinates from a plist, maps them and then provides directions from the user location to the map destination point selected. Try this link:
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Using_MKDirections_to_get_iOS_8_Map_Directions_and_Routes
When my google cardboard app starts up for the first time, it launches a Google page that says "Google Cardboard. Let's get you set up. Pair your phone with your viewer for the best experience."
I'd like to control this experience to show my own initial screen before the google cardboard sdk launches. One reason for this is that I want people without cardboard to be able to immediately start experiencing the app in non-cardboard mode without having to go through the pairing process.
I know I can launch the pairing / viewer profile selector later on with the cardboard.ShowSettingsDialog().
One way to do this with the current version of the SDK is to have a starter scene without a Cardboard component in it. It will not be in VR, and it won't trigger onboarding.
[edit] The function OnFocus() in CardboardiOSDevice.cs is where it decides to launch the onboarding dialog. You can suppress that by editing this function. But you may want to continue using the onboarding dialog for first time users, rather than the settings dialog, because of it walks them through the scanning process.
I'm developing a Apple Watch app but I'm not one of the lucky guys who got the watch earlier. It says that when a user taps a map it opens the native maps app.
When I place a red marker on the static map, will it be displayed in the native maps app as well?
I think there is no way to directly start a navigation from the watch app but if anybody knows how this - pretty common - use case can be handled I would be glad to get some advice.
It will open the native Maps app centred on the point where your annotation/marker was, but it won't be displayed. I haven't been able to confirm the behaviour if you have multiple markers, however.
Source: one of the lucky guys/dev forums
As a part of my ibeacon based ios application i have to find the current location of the user in my indoor map offline, I am using mapbox SDK for displaying my offline indoor map there is any way to calculate the user location with the help of near by beacons.Thanks in advance.
Yes! You can use Radius Networks' NavigationKit framework to do offline indoor navigation. There is a reference app that shows you how to use it with an image-based map, but you can modify it to work with mapbox as well. Best of all, NavigationKit is free to use on deployments of up to 100 mobile devices.