Late last year I mentioned a library called MWOpenInKit allowing you to provide the user a selection of different apps when opening multiple apps are available to perform a task such as opening Google Maps instead of Apple Maps.
Here’s a library that allows you to very easily show directions within many popular map apps called CMMapLauncher from Citymapper.
CMMapLauncher provides a simple syntax for detecting whether a directions app is installed, and setting up those directions.
Here’s an example from the readme showing how to detect if the Citymapper app is installed:
and an example showing how to launch directions within the Citymapper app:
[CMMapLauncher launchMapApp:CMMapAppCitymapper
forDirectionsTo:[CMMapPoint mapPointWithName:@"Big Ben"
coordinate:bigBen]];
The apps supported by CMMapLauncher include: Apple Maps, Google Maps, Citymapper, Navigon, The Transit App, Waze and Yandex Navigator.
You can find CMMapLauncher on Github here.
A great tool for avoiding the need to set up different URL schemes and providing the user more options when providing directions.
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