How to simulate a user driving a route in a MKMapView?

Question

I need to simulate how my application will look when a user is driving around for a demo. I have a MKMapView, how can I simulate the look of a user driving around which will use the map.userLocation functionality, which obviously will not be available in the demo.

Thanks!

Answer 1

No way to simulate in iPhone simulator. You'll need to load it onto your device and move around.

Answer 2

I'm not an iPhone dev expert, but how does the map view receive the coordinates? If it's through a function that calls the CoreLocation API, could you possibly just write a function that randomly generates longitude and latitude values at a certain time interval and have your map view pull the coordinates from there instead? Just a thought.

Answer 3

You could also check out iSimulate which claims to be able to simulate several features only available on the iPhone in the iPhone simulator include CoreLocation. I have not tried this myself so your mileage may vary.

Answer 4

Well I got something going, I just did essentially this

- (void)moveIcon:(MKAnnotationView*)locationView toLocation:(CLLocation*)newLoc
{
    LocationAnnotation* annotation = [[[LocationAnnotation alloc] initWithCoordinate:newLoc.coordinate] autorelease];
    [locationView setAnnotation:annotation];
    [map setCenterCoordinate:newLoc.coordinate animated:YES];
}

Then I call this guy in a loop between all of my vertices with a slight delay. Works quite qell.

Answer 5

The answer is NO. Then, how about adding an abstraction layer between your code and MKMapKit? You can do xUnit tests for your objective.