STLocationRequest is a simple and elegant way to request the users location services at the very first time. The STLocationRequestController shows a beautiful 3D 360° Flyover-MapView bult on top of FlyoverKit with over 25 cities and landmarks.

STLocationRequest is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'STLocationRequest'

Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager that builds your dependencies and provides you with binary frameworks.

You can install Carthage with Homebrew using the following command:

$ brew update
$ brew install carthage

To integrate STLocationRequest into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile:

github "SvenTiigi/STLocationRequest"

Run carthage update --platform iOS to build the framework and drag the build:

• STLocationRequest.framework
• FlyoverKit.framework

into your Xcode project.

On your application targets’ “Build Phases” settings tab, click the “+” icon, choose “New Run Script Phase” and add the Framework paths (for all Frameworks) as mentioned in Carthage Getting started Step 4, 5 and 6

import STLocationRequest

// Initialize STLocationRequestController with STLocationRequestController.Configuration
let locationRequestController = STLocationRequestController { (config: inout STLocationRequestController.Configuration) in
    config.title.text = "We need your location for some awesome features"
    config.allowButton.title = "Alright"
    config.notNowButton.title = "Not now"
    config.mapView.alpha = 0.9
    config.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGray
    config.authorizeType = .requestWhenInUseAuthorization
}

// Get notified on STLocationRequestController.Events
locationRequestController.onEvent = { event in
    if case .locationRequestAuthorized = event {
        // Location Request Authorized 🙌
    }
}

// Present STLocationRequestController
locationRequestController.present(onViewController: self)

Please keep in mind that the 3D flyover view will only work on a real iOS device (Read more).

The STLocationRequestController can be customized via the the STLocationRequestController.Configuration struct. There are plenty of options available 👨‍💻 More details can be found here

The onEvent function get invoked if an STLocationRequestController.Event occured. Simply set an anonymous function of type (Event) -> Void to evaluate the event.

locationRequestController.onEvent = { (event: STLocationRequestController.Event) in
    switch event {
        case .locationRequestAuthorized:
            break
        case .locationRequestDenied:
            break
        case .notNowButtonTapped:
            break
        case .didPresented:
            break
        case .didDisappear:
            break
    }
}

To perform a location request, define a usage description in your Info.plist file.

STLocationRequestController.Authorization.requestWhenInUseAuthorization

<key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>The usage description</string>

STLocationRequestController.Authorization.requestAlwaysAuthorization

<key>NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>The usage description</string>

The usage description will be shown in the default iOS location request dialog after the user taps the allow button.

The recommended way to present STLocationRequestController is:

if STLocationRequestController.shouldPresentLocationRequestController {
    // Location Services are enabled and authorizationStatus is notDetermined
    // Ready to present STLocationRequestController
    self.presentLocationRequestController()
}

Please keep in mind that the 3D flyover view will only work on a real iOS device with at least iOS 9.0 installed (Apple Developer API Reference). A Screenshot taken from an iOS Simulator running a STLocationRequestController visualizes the iOS Simulator behaviour.

STLocationRequest uses the following libraries.

• FlyoverKit
• SwiftPulse

Contributions are very welcome. 🙌 🤓

To run the example Application, generate the Frameworks via Carthage first.

$ carthage update --platform iOS
$ open STLocationRequest.xcodeproj

STLocationRequest
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