How to add more details in MKAnnotation in iOS
I want to add more details in MKAnnotation like location title, description, date, location name. So it will be four lines that are needed. But I found that only 2 parameters can be passed to MKAnnotation which are title and subtitle. How can I add more details on the map? Plz help me..Thanks in advance.
Take a look at creating a custom MKAnnotationView
object... it is basically a UIView
that is tailored for map annotations. In that object you could have your 4 custom labels.
In your MKMapViewDelegate
class, you implement the viewForAnnotation
method:
- (CustomMapAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation
{
CustomMapAnnotationView *annotationView = nil;
// determine the type of annotation, and produce the correct type of annotation view for it.
CustomMapAnnotation* myAnnotation = (CustomMapAnnotation *)annotation;
NSString* identifier = @"CustomMapAnnotation";
CustomMapAnnotationView *newAnnotationView = (CustomMapAnnotationView *)[self.mapView dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier:identifier];
if(nil == newAnnotationView) {
newAnnotationView = [[[CustomMapAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:myAnnotation reuseIdentifier:identifier] autorelease];
}
annotationView = newAnnotationView;
[annotationView setEnabled:YES];
[annotationView setCanShowCallout:YES];
return annotationView;
}
And that will display your custom view where ever you have an annotation... if you want a step by step tutorial, check out this video.
hope this helps
EDIT
I actually just found a new Maps example on the apple dev site... has all the source code you need to go through. They are also using a custom MKAnnotationView
called WeatherAnnotationView