Does anyone know of a way to access the bookmarks of the "Maps" application programmatically through the SDK? I'd like to read and write bookmarks if possible. Ideas?
Thanks!
I am pretty sure the answer is no. I considered two possible solutions:
Can you access the data persisted by the Maps app directly
There isn't a generic way of sharing data between apps, so a no for this approach.
Can you access the bookmarks through the new 3.0 MapKit Framework.
No. Unless I have missed it. It doesn't look like the MapKit exposes this functionality.
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Hi I want to port my iPhone app to Android.
in Iphone the Settings provide a unified UI for application preferences.
I have read http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html about SharedPreferences, but there is no UI
What should I do in Android?
Thanks
but there is no UI
Sure there is. It is called a PreferenceActivity. You define it using a preference XML resource. Here is a sample project showing a simple case for this.
Look up PreferenceActivity. It allows you create a UI very quickly using XML that matches the general preference look and feel of Android.
Is there anyway of displaying Google StreetView in my ipad app, or in the future are there any known plans to support it? Is there any other way of showing it?
No, use a link to the coordinate to open in the maps app. With the way things are going between Apple and Google it's not likely to happen anytime soon.
Here's an example:
http://maps.google.com/?q=Tokyo#35.680,139.769
I am working on making an application that will store information, and for user convenience I'd like to make it possible for them to use Spotlight (scroll to the left until search appears on the home screen) to search for items in the app.
Is this possible, and if so, can you point me to a reference? I have had no luck in finding this, but the iPod app implements it, (Undocumented API perhaps?)
Thanks for any help with this.
This is not supported on current versions of iOS, sadly. Please file a radar asking for this!
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I hope I overlooked something, but I haven't been able to find anything about reading/loading Safari bookmarks while using another application.. Is that possible? I want users to be able to copy existing bookmarks to a list in my application.
Thank you very much
Not through the existing SDK or APIs but some threads suggest, through jailbreaking, you can access the file at:
/var/mobile/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
It would be useful but no, I'm not aware of any official method of importing Safari's bookmarks.
Can anyone tell me the best way to go about making an iPhone application support multiple languages? I am going to put separate versions for each language in the App Store, but what is the best way to represent this in Xcode?
Putting a separate app in the store for each language is NOT the way to go. The iPhone SDK handles multiple languages with grace, and you only need to have a single app with all the various translations. The iPhone's locale setting will direct your app as to which language to use.
A good place to start is here.
I haven't done iPhone dev yet, but "normal" Cocoa apps use ".lproj" strings files for different languages. See the docs about those, that should help. Good luck.