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Ahmad Sahar
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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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Updating the JournalEntry class to conform to the MKAnnotation protocol

When you use the Maps app on iPhone, you can tap and hold on the map to drop a pin:

Figure 17.12: Map app showing dropped pin

To add a pin to a map view for your own apps, you need a class that conforms to the MKAnnotation protocol. This protocol allows you to associate an instance of that class with a specific location.

To learn more about the MKAnnotation protocol, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/mkannotation.

Any class can adopt the MKAnnotation protocol by implementing a coordinate property, which contains a location. Optional MKAnnotation protocol properties are title, a string containing the annotation’s title, and subtitle, a string containing the annotation’s subtitle.

When an instance of a class conforming to the MKAnnotation protocol is in the region of the map that is visible onscreen, the map view asks its delegate (usually a view...

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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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