Creating a Facebook Places Check-In app using the Graph API

Zen CheckIn Facebook App

I was taking a look at the some analytics for the blog and I noticed that a lot of people are visiting my Using OAuth and Graph API’s in FaceBook Canvas Apps post. This leads me to believe there are a lot of people with Facebook Canvas app questions looking for more information. On that note, I decided to demonstrate some of the new capabilities of Places in the Graph API. This is a feature Facebook has just recently rolled out and provides for the basis of some new types of apps. An example would be special features or coupons offered to those who have checked-in to a place.

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Finding Business Listings and Displaying with MapKit – Part 3

iPhone Business Listings

Time to wrap up this 3 part series and put the final polish on our map. We need to do two basic thing. We need to replace the native pin annotation views with our custom views and we need to center the map to the selected pin.

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Finding Business Listings and Displaying with MapKit – Part 2

Here we go with Part 2 of “Finding Business Listings and Displaying with MapKit”. In the first part we looked at how to gather the data from Google Maps. Now, we are going to take that data and display it using the MapKit API. We are also going to find our map’s center point using CoreLocation.

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