How to trigger alert when iphone reaches a certain location? - ios

Question

I've currently got a map that shows the user's current location and also has a couple of annotation markers (I have yet to put them in an array but will soon). I'm trying to get my iphone app to trigger an alert when the user reaches certain locations. How do I do that? Here's what I have right now...
ViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <CoreLocation/CoreLocation.h>
#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>
#import "MapAnnotation.h"
#interface ViewController : UIViewController <CLLocationManagerDelegate, MKMapViewDelegate>
{
CLLocationManager *locationManager;
IBOutlet MKMapView *worldView;
}
#end
view controller.m
#import "ViewController.h"
#interface ViewController ()
#end
#implementation ViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[worldView setShowsUserLocation:YES];
}
- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView
didUpdateUserLocation:(MKUserLocation *)userLocation
{
CLLocationCoordinate2D loc = [userLocation coordinate];
MKCoordinateRegion region = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(loc, 250, 250);
[worldView setRegion:region animated:YES];
MKCoordinateRegion pin = { {0.0, 0.0 }, {0.0, 0.0 } };
pin.center.latitude = 53.363581;
pin.center.longitude = -6.258183;
pin.span.longitudeDelta = 0.01f;
pin.span.latitudeDelta = 0.01f;
[worldView setRegion:pin animated:YES];
MapAnnotation *stage1 = [[MapAnnotation alloc] init];
stage1.title = #"Quinn's";
stage1.coordinate = pin.center;
[worldView addAnnotation:stage1];
MKCoordinateRegion pin2 = { {0.0, 0.0 }, {0.0, 0.0 } };
pin2.center.latitude = 53.364678;
pin2.center.longitude = -6.263009;
pin2.span.longitudeDelta = 0.01f;
pin2.span.latitudeDelta = 0.01f;
[worldView setRegion:pin2 animated:YES];
MapAnnotation *stage2 = [[MapAnnotation alloc] init];
stage2.title = #"Neighbour";
stage2.coordinate = pin2.center;
[worldView addAnnotation:stage2];
}
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
// Create location manager object
locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
// Setting Delegate as AnotherMapFirstViewController
[locationManager setDelegate:self];
// And we want it to be as accurate as possible
// regardless of how much time/power it takes
[locationManager setDesiredAccuracy:kCLLocationAccuracyBest];
self.title = NSLocalizedString(#"First", #"First");
self.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"first"];
}
return self;
}
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager
didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation
fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation
{
NSLog(#"%#", newLocation);
}
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager
didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
NSLog(#"Could not find location: %#", error);
}
- (void)dealloc
{
// Tell the location manager to stop sending us messages
[locationManager setDelegate:nil];
}
#end

Answer 1

You want to look for region monitoring. Check the documentation for -[CLLocationManager startMonitoringForRegion:].