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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:22:07+00:00

I’m trying to make an iOS app that shows my location on a map

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I’m trying to make an iOS app that shows my location on a map and shows some stores (as pins) around me. I want the store pins to be clickable so that below the map there will be a label showing the details for this store when user clicked/touched the pin. My question is should I use MapKit or Google Maps API?

If Mapkit, I’m building in XCode 4.2, the only framework i see is iOS 5 -> MapKit Framework, if i use it, would my app still work on phones with iOS 4?

If Google Maps API, I believe I’ll have to use a web-view then load a html googlemaps page. How would I detect a click event on the store pin and send this message to my label below the webview?

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  1. Editorial Team

    MapKit.framework is the most right choice for an App.
    You can set the Deployment Target to 4.0 in Xcode, then the App will run on iOS 4 correctly.
    (But you can’t use Storyboard for interface builder.)

    Web App is significantly slower than native App right now.

    Hope to help.

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