To go along with its brand new, built-from-scratch iOS Maps app, Google has released a new SDK which will allow developers to utilize its service within their own apps. The key is that the SDK allows access to a URL scheme that lets you call up the app from anywhere you like within your own. Say, you have a contact management app. If you surface a person’s address, you could choose to launch…
Anticipation for the Google Maps iPhone app, which finally arrived late Wednesday, has been building since Apple announced its own mapping solution, and it reached a peak after the resulting app failed to live up to expectations when it arrived in iOS 6....
As we hinted at time and time again, Google has released its native Maps app for iOS…before Christmas. The timing couldn’t come soon enough, as many people have become frustrated with the built-in iOS 6 Maps that Apple offers. Even Apple’s own CEO took it upon himself to apologize for the not-so-polished product, an stand-up act which I actually applauded. Today is about Google…
After a long wait and what seems like endless speculation, Google Maps for iOS has finally landed in the App Store today, and you can download it here. The company has packed it full of features and also, crucially, it has launched an SDK that gives developers a chance to integrate it into their iOS apps – read on for more....
Google Maps’ return to the iPhone has been much anticipated since Apple removed it as a default app with the launch of iOS 6 in September. For the first time on iOS, it has voice-guided directions.
Additional reporting contributed by Fran Berkman and Jennifer Shore. Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were, without a doubt, the most talked about apps of 2012, but they're...
There’s a special, particularly awful place in hell reserved for people who dump their trash illegally. There’s also a special, particularly cool environmental project called TrashOut that aims to encourage smartphone owners to locate and report illegal waste worldwide....
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