iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example -- Table of Contents -- iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. The Location-based World -- Understanding Location-based Services -- Time for action - consuming Location-based Services with Google -- What just happened? -- Buzzwords in the Location-based Industry -- Application of LBS and common use cases -- Military -- Government -- Commercial -- How Apple uses LBS in the iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices -- iOS location API -- Time for action - turning off Location Tracking in your iPhone -- What just happened? -- Behind LBS - GPS -- User segment -- Space segment -- Control segment -- Push and Pull methods of Location Services -- Push Service -- Pull Service -- Life without GPS: Wi-Fi-based location detection -- Life without GPS: cell ID positioning and cell tower triangulation -- Time for action - using the SkyHook Wireless Loki framework to determine your location -- What just happened? -- Life without GPS: Google Maps API -- Understanding Indoor and Outdoor Navigation -- Pop quiz - play safe with location! -- Summary -- 2. The Xcoder's World -- Introducing Xcode 4 -- Xcode 4: Prerequisites and features -- Prerequisites -- Features -- iOS 5 and Xcode 4.2: new and notable features -- iOS 5 new features -- Xcode 4.2's new features -- Transitioning from Xcode3: What you need to know -- Time for action - installation -- What just happened? -- Time for action - Hello Location -- What just happened?.

Tools for the overnight coders: HTML5 -- PhoneGap -- Time for action - using PhoneGap to build a Hello Location App -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using Titanium Appcelerator for building the Hello Location app -- What just happened? -- Time for action - Hello Location with Sencha Touch -- What just happened? -- Exploring location-based SDKs/APIs -- Foursquare -- Gowalla -- Eventful and Last.fm API - some music is always good -- Still more tools: SimpleGeo and Factual -- Other Notable APIs - YQL and Location Labs -- Pop quiz - so you think you can Xcode -- Summary -- 3. Using Location in your iOS Apps - Core Location -- Core Location framework an - overview -- Time for action - location debugging -- What just happened? -- Core location services -- Standard location -- Significant change -- Region monitoring -- Geocoding and reverse Geocoding - CLGeocoder -- Direction using heading -- Core Location Manager - CLLocationManager -- Time for action - checking for location service availability -- What just happened? -- User authorization -- Time for action - using Core Location with user authorization -- What just happened? -- The CLLocation object -- Time for action - receiving location updates in your application -- What just happened? -- Time for action - boundary monitoring with Location Manager -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - remembering a user's location with Core Data -- Extending Hello Location for nearby events -- Important things to know before we begin -- Time for action - extending Hello Location for nearby events -- What just happened? -- Time for action - Last.fm API in your app -- What just happened? -- Extending Hello Location for local search -- Important things to know before we begin -- Time for action - building a local search app with foursquare -- What just happened?.

Pop quiz - Location, Location, and Location -- Summary -- 4. Using Maps in your iOS apps MapKit -- Overview of the MapKit framework -- Understanding map geometry -- Time for action - using MapKit in your app -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using map gestures panning and zooming -- Annotating Maps an overview -- Time for action - adding annotations to your maps -- Time for action - draggable annotations -- What just happened? -- Time for action - custom map annotations -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - use CLRegion to detect a user's city -- Map overlays an overview -- Time for action - customizing map annotations -- User tracking modes -- Bonus - offline maps in your app -- Time for action - using OpenStreetMaps with CloudMade API -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating an offline map -- Pop quiz - Map Mania -- Summary -- 5. Weather App WeatherPackt -- Storing and retrieving the user's location with SQLite -- Time for action - storing and retrieving the user's location with SQLite -- What just happened? -- Converting location data into city name - using Geonames API -- A bit on GeoNames -- Time for action - converting location data into city name -- What just happened? -- Consuming the WeatherBug API -- Important things to know before we begin -- Time for action - using WeatherBug API -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating the Weather Alert function -- Building your Weather App: WeatherPackt -- Start a new Xcode project -- Define the Home screen -- Time for action - defining the Home screen -- Set up a default location -- Formatting the Weather API for display -- The settings page -- Have a go hero - adding the Alerts page to WeatherPackt -- Bonus: building WeatherPackt with PhoneGap -- Bonus: text-to-speech -- Pop quiz - Weather Alert -- Summary -- 6. Events App - PacktEvents.

PacktEvents: Overview and architecture -- Architecture of PacktEvents -- Storing and Retrieving Events with SQLite -- Time for action - storing and retrieving events with SQLite -- What just happened? -- Plotting events on a map -- Time for action - plotting events on a map -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - add more dynamics to the map -- Filtering Events display by Event Categories -- Time for action - filtering Events by categories -- What just happened? -- Using the Event Kit framework to add events to your iPhone calendar -- Time for action - adding events to your iPhone calendar -- What just happened? -- Using the Twitter framework -- Time for action - adding Twitter capabilities to your iPhone app -- What just happened? -- Bonus: using the Layar Player API in your app: Augmented Reality -- Time for action - adding Augmented Reality to your iPhone app -- What just happened? -- PacktEvents: building the app -- Pop quiz - have a blast with events -- Summary -- 7. Advanced Topics -- Using directions with location -- Direction using heading -- Getting your app ready for direction -- Understanding heading using magnetometer -- Time for action - using heading for direction in your app -- What just happened? -- Direction using course -- Time for action - using course for direction in your app -- What just happened? -- Core Motion: Motion Manager -- How to use Core Motion -- Time for action - using MotionManager: accelerometer -- What just happened? -- Core Motion conclusion -- Background app execution -- What apps can run in the background? -- Background location -- Understanding the iOS application life cycle -- Push notifications - overview -- Local notifications -- Time for action - using local notifications -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - add local notifications to WeatherPackt -- Pop quiz - the rocket science -- Summary.

8. Local Search PacktLocal -- Consuming the foursquare venue API -- Venue categories -- Time for action - consuming the foursquare venue API - categories -- What just happened? -- Recommended and popular venues -- Time for action - recommended and popular venues -- What just happened? -- Search for venues -- Time for action - exploring the foursquare Search API -- What just happened? -- Building an UI for our local search app - PacktLocal -- Saving venue information on the device -- Building the app: PacktLocal -- Time for action - building the app - PacktLocal -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - implement the add venue endpoint -- Summary -- 9. Location Aware News - PacktNews -- Understanding the Patch News API - HyperLocal News -- Authentication -- Taxonomy -- Vertical -- Format -- Author -- Finding stories by location -- Find location by names -- Time for action - consuming the Patch News API -- What just happened? -- Adding the Geo Fencing support -- Time for action - adding the Geo Fencing support -- What just happened? -- Building our app - PacktNews -- A bit on StoryBoard -- Time for action - building PacktNews -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 10. Social Governance - TweetGovern -- Social governance - an overview -- TweetGovern - behind the scenes -- Stackmob -- Our approach: Twitter -- Icons and images -- SDKs and frameworks -- Time for action - creating the UI for TweetGovern -- What just happened? -- Time for action - detecting the user location and showing nearby issues -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating and voting for an issue -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding search to TweetGovern -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- A. Pop-Quiz Answers -- Chapter 1, The Location-Based World -- Pop quiz - play safe with location ! -- Chapter 2, The Xcoder's World -- Pop quiz - so you think you can Xcode.

Chapter 3, Using Location in your iOS Apps Core Location.