vikas100 / map-with-car-ios

This is an investigation of how to build moving/rotating car (similar to Uber app)

map-with-car-ios

This is an investigation of how to build moving/rotating car (similar to Uber app)

Tasks solved

• show annotation with custom icon (Car in our case)
• calculate direction (aka bearing) between 2 points on map (based on Haversine formla)
• rotate car icon correspondingly
• zoom map to always show both user and car
• "random" locations generator logic was added in order to test "moving car" (new location is generated from the previous one with distance between 0..100m and bearing betweeen 0..360 degrees)

Project structure

• ViewController is responsible for showing map, being MapDelegate and handling IBActions
• CarLocationService is responsible for generating, providing and storing car locations
• MapDrawUtil is responsible for drawing objects on the map (e.g. car, car route)
• MyLocationManager is responsible for handling location permissions and location updates
• Different extensions are used as utils for random data generation, custom calculations

Pitfalls

• Car icon rotation is a bit tricky. Direction/Bearing is based on compass and North is 0°, while rotation goes clockwise (e.g. East is 90°, South is 180°, West is 270°). While image rotation happens counter-clockwise with 0° equal to original image rotation. To apply rotation for the car image the angle should be "inverted" like 360 - direction.

• Image rotation is not trivial either, separate extension was created in order to do that. Image quality can be impacted by rotation algoritm.

• zooming map to contain all the coordinates (e.g. user and car) is a bit tricky as well.