iOS SDK 6.0

Question

Apple just officially released the iOS 6.0 SDK and I am trying to build my app that uses the BingMapControl for iOS with it. It is giving me an error...

ld: file is universal (3 slices) but does not contain a(n) armv7s slice: /Users/rlh3/Dropbox/Xcode Projects/MobileFleet/AirTrakDisplay/BingMapControl/libBingMaps.a for architecture armv7s

I assume there needs to be a new build of the library. Any idea where I might find this?

Answer 1

The best way to develop Bing Maps applications for iOS is to use the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control with PhoneGap. We have had many customers who found this to work very well plus have the bonus of also being able to deploy to Android, Blackberry and Kindle Fire with the same code base. In fact this approach was used by MSFT for one of there apps: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/08/14/how-to-the-bing-get-me-there-app-for-ios.aspx

Here are a bunch of good development blog posts on this:

http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/794/Bing-Maps-on-IPhone-with-Phone-Gap-Apache-Cordova.aspx

http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/795/Showing-GPS-position-on-Bing-Maps-with-PhoneGap-Apache-Cordova.aspx

http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/797/Getting-the-shortest-route-directions-to-items-using-the-Directions-Module.aspx

http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/798/Calling-an-ASHX-handler-from-JavaScript.aspx

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Answer 2

So does this mean the SDK for adding Bing Map controls to native iOS 6 apps is not going to be updated?

Answer 3

Unlikely. The Bing Maps iOS control has yet to be updated and always had limited functionality. There really is no reason to update it now as the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control performs well using the approached mentioned above. Plus the approach above gives you access to the native controls. In the long run this approach just makes sense as you only have to write one Bing Maps application and you can deploy it to several platforms instead of being stuck with just one.

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