Thumbnail Based MapView Annotation

Category: My Tutorials > iOS

JPSThumbnailAnnotation is an open-source library to customize your MapKit annotation view for displaying image thumbnails along with title and subtitle. Here is a quick screenshot from my sample project using this library.

Setup

Its free, and open source; You need to download JPSThumbnailAnnotation library from github and drag/drop the directory into your project; You will have following six files in library;

JPSThumbnail.h
JPSThumbnailAnnotation.h
JPSThumbnailAnnotation.m
JPSThumbnailAnnotationView.h
JPSThumbnailAnnotationView.m
JPSThumnail.m

Usage

import JPSThumbnailAnnotation.h and add the following line of code to add one annotation on your map view


JPSThumbnail *faisaMosqueAnnotation = [[JPSThumbnail alloc] init];
faisaMosqueAnnotation.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"faisalMasjid.jpg"];
faisaMosqueAnnotation.title = kFaisalMasjidTitle;
faisaMosqueAnnotation.subtitle = kFaisalMasjidSubTitle;
faisaMosqueAnnotation.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(33.72976, 73.03698);
faisaMosqueAnnotation.disclosureBlock = ^{ NSLog(@"Faisal Mosque selected"); };
JPSThumbnailAnnotation *annotation = [[JPSThumbnailAnnotation alloc] initWithThumbnail:faisaMosqueAnnotation];
[mapView addAnnotation:annotation];

You are good to go now .. You can download a sample project from here.

Happy Programming .. (:

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