I want to use the Nokia Ovi map in my iPhone application. Is it possible? If so, please help me to find a link to some API documentation and steps for integration.
Nokia Ovi Maps run on any HTML5 compatible browser, thus you can embed it in your application with UIWebView (see the documentation of this class on how to do it). According to Nokia you can do the followings:
You can see where you are on the map, thanks to HTML5 support for
positioning
You can find addresses, businesses and other places of interest, anywhere in the world
You can get to know the places: all the essential information about a place are presented on one page (pictures, user reviews, popular travel guides description, contact information)
You can plan the fastest route to your destination by car or on foot
You can see where the public transport lines go, and where the stops are
You can share your favourite places with your friends via SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter
Found here: http://blog.maps.nokia.com/archive/nokia-maps-goes-to-ios-and-android
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I notice that Facebook pages allow a map box that clicks to a full page, dynamic Bing map:
And by just changing the address and name parameters in the link HTML I can get the map to show any location and map sign I want.
Do I need a license to generate these links myself for clients that I build a web page for?
Thanks for any information.
If you want to create links to Bing Maps that open a map to specific location using nothing more than a URL then you can do this using the documented method found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn217138.aspx Don't reverse engineer the maps on Facebook.
A license is not required to do this. However you will find that you are limited to only the functionality that is exposed through the URL and won't be able to do much in terms of customizations. You will also be taking users away from there current environment to the Bing Maps website which might not be the ideal user experience. If you need more customization functionality or a better user experience then you would use the Bing Maps development API and which does have some free terms of use, but also has options for licensing high volume or internal apps.
I am working on figuring out our source attribution for a Facebook ad campaign that we're running for our game. As part of the campaign we have a low-level ad buy going on in the right-side ad bar, which averages several hundred clicks and several hundred installs per day. The problem is when we look at our source attribution within the app, we don't see "facebook:ad" passed nearly as often as it should. It seems like the source attribution is being given to some other source, like the appcenter or canvas. Can anyone shed some light on how they have tracked ad campaign acquisitions and installs for their Facebook app?
Thanks for the help!
What analytics package are you using for your app? Also, what OS is your game written for?
If you are using Google Analytics, using Google Analytics URL Builder will allow you to tag each ad's attributes such as position and content before they get to your app. Use this in conjunction with Android SDK to see where people are finding you before they go to the store and download/install.
If you're using iOS take a look at the iOS SDK
The Apple App Store does not currently support campaign measurement using Google Analytics. However, custom URL schemes can be used in conjunction with general campaign measurement to pass campaign information into your iOS app after it has been downloaded and installed.
You may also want to look at apsalar.com as they have a free source attribution solution for Facebook.
Hope that helps
Matt
I am developing iPhone app where I need to provide integration with different social media like FaceBook, Twitter, Google etc. I have seen couple of iPhone applications that allow people to login using their existing FB or Twitter accounts and allow to post comments, like/unlike, follow people etc. I want to implement something similar but not sure where to start with. Could anyone please suggest me right direction? Any documentation and sample code would be great help.
Thanks.
http://developers.facebook.com/ has just about all the info you might need.
Further also look in Apples library as it contains sample code and extensive information about most topics.
#AppleDeveloper, check out Socialize; this is exactly the problem we're working to solve: http://www.GetSocialize.com. Full feature list at http://go.GetSocialize.com/features
The problem with just putting Facebook into your app is that your download base of users aren't all friends on Facebook. So any sharing in the app using Facebook will only go out to that user's friends.
Socialize lets all users of the app see the social actions other users of the app take, in addition to allowing those social actions to be shared on Facebook (and soon Twitter & Google+ as well). Then we give you a reporting dashboard so you can see the effect of all the social actions on downloads & user engagement: http://go.GetSocialize.com/dashboard
Let me know if this is the type of thing you're looking for.
DROdio
I am using Mapkit for Google Maps. According to their terms at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/iphone/terms.html:
9.3 End User Terms and Privacy Policy. If you develop a Maps API Implementation for use by other users, you must:
(a) display to the users of your Maps API Implementation the link to Google's Terms of Use as presented through the Service or described in the Maps API Documentation;
Where can I show link to Google's ToU? I do not have an About screen in my app.
Is it must to show one? I see apps on iTunes who do not have an About screen and nobody shows the link on the main map screen.
This section means if you make your own API, like an add-on, or something that alters the MapKit, you need to link to their terms.
If you are just using the MapKit in your app, then no, there's no need to do anything extra.
I would like to launch Apple's Stocks app to show information for a particular stock, on a non-jailbroken phone. I'm not interesting in how to get a quote or graph a stock myself, just opening Stocks.app.
I was hoping that the Stocks app would have a custom URL format, so opening a URL like stocks://AAPL would do the trick. But I haven't found anything documenting such a scheme, and suspect it doesn't exist.
Any other ideas, or is it impossible to integrate with the native Stocks app?
It doesn't exist, Apple publishes a list of iPhone URL schemes - Mail, phone, text, Maps, YouTube, and iTunes.
Maybe you could just pull the stock info yourself? There must be some kind of web service you can use.
Unfortunately this is not possible as Apple pulls its stock information from Yahoo! Finance. Maybe you can try opening a UIWebView/Safari and direct to the Yahoo! Finance as the next best thing?