How To Use Updated Google Maps For IPhone Mobile Application Development

Google Maps app has been recently updated for iPhone Mobile application development with latest features including dropping pins for both the starting location and destination, weather information for major cities, and new restaurant filters. Let’s learn how to use them.

Google Maps app was recently updated with new features with usual bug fixes.

With recent update, you can now choose your journey’s starting point and destination point by simply tapping on the map instead of putting the exact address. 

How it works?

When you select either a starting point or a destination, you will see a Choose on Map option. You will notice a red pin at its center when you open the map. You can move the map till the pin rests on the point where you want to go or end your journey. The plus point of this feature is that it will help you in reaching your destination even if you don’t know the exact address.

Filter your search for a restaurant by cuisine

This is also an interesting part of the update. Using this updated Google Maps app offers user an ability to filter a restaurant search by cuisine. 

How?

• Type the restaurants in the search bar
• Tap on Filter tab placed at the lower-right corner.
• You will notice a new Cuisine line under the usual price and Rating filters
• Tap the button and select from 14 cuisine filters to make your search narrow.
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You can now get latest weather report for many cities on Google Maps app

The apps now showcases the latest weather report for several cities worldwide. How?

• While glancing at the city map, you need to tap the location banner at the screen’s bottom
• Above Street View and Photos thumbnails, you will notice the latest weather update for the particular city if it is available for that location
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All these features will help developers in IPhone application development to deliver updated app solutions that feature Google Maps.

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Now Developers Can Price Their Paid iOS Apps as Low as Rs. 10

Apple has announced new pricing tiers that will enable developers to price their paid apps as low as Rs. 10 for customers in India. 

All prices in App Store are set against the US dollar (USD), and the lowest a developer can price an app - other than making it free of course - is $0.99. In markets outside the US, Apple has traditionally charged the local currency equivalent of the USD price, as calculated against a fixed (but periodically revised) exchange rate. The exact pricing in each market is shown to developers as a part of the Pricing Matrix available under iTunes Connect.

Apple has let developers charge higher or lower prices in select markets as part of its 'Alternate Tier' pricing. This week, Apple extended two low-price tiers - called Alternate Tier A and Alternate Tier B - to the App Store in India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. Thanks to these new tiers, developers can continue to charge, say, $0.99 for an app in the US App Store but charge customers in India Rs. 10 (Alternate Tier A) or Rs. 30 (Alternate Tier B). The Alternate Tier pricing is also applicable for in-app purchases.

Apple notes that developers already using the Alternate Tier A and Alternate Tier B price tiers on the Chinese App Store will see prices for their apps in the above mentioned countries updated to reflect the new pricing structure. Other developers will need to opt in to the alternate pricing tiers to avail their benefit. The lowest price for a paid app in these regions now stands at 5 Peso in Mexico, 1 Yuan in China, 3000 Rupiah in Indonesia, Rs. 10 in India, 15 Rubles in Russia, 0.59 Lira in Turkey, and 3.99 Rand in South Africa.

The move is extremely pragmatic on Apple's part, and if it finds widespread adoption amongst developers, could encourage people to loosen their purse strings to spend on apps where they otherwise wouldn't. Many still see Rs. 60 as too high a price to pay for an app, but Rs. 10 is unlikely to invoke the same sentiment. Any potential loss of revenue for developers by opting in for the low-price tiers is more than likely to be offset by increased volume of sales.


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