How to Show Multiple Annotation in MKMapView iOS?

Question

i am newbie in iOS Development i want to Show multiple Annotation in MKMapViewController in iOS for that i write a code as in my viewDidLoad method

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.mapView.delegate=self;
NSArray *name=[[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:
               @"VelaCherry",
               @"Perungudi",
               @"Tharamani", nil];
self.annotation=[[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithCapacity:[name count]];
MKPointAnnotation *mappin=[[MKPointAnnotation alloc]init];

CLLocationCoordinate2D location;

location.latitude=(double)12.970760345459;
location.longitude=(double)80.2190093994141;
mappin.coordinate=location;
mappin.title=[name objectAtIndex:0];
[self.annotation addObject:mappin];

location.latitude=(double)12.9752297537231;
location.longitude=(double)80.2313079833984;
mappin.coordinate=location;
mappin.title=[name objectAtIndex:1];
[self.annotation addObject:mappin];

location.latitude=(double)12.9788103103638;
location.longitude=(double)80.2412414550781;
mappin.title=[name objectAtIndex:2];
[self.annotation addObject:mappin];

[self.mapView addAnnotations:self.annotation];
self.mapView.mapType = MKMapTypeStandard;
self.mapView.showsUserLocation = YES;
}

But it is not show any of annotation in MKMapViewController please give me Solution for this.

Answer 1

I've written a demo app here which shows you one way to make your code a bit more cleaner and reusable, taking into account Paulw11's sugggestion.

Note, this method is purely done with code, no interface builder.

ViewController.h

#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>

@interface ViewController : UIViewController <MKMapViewDelegate>

@property (nonatomic, strong) MKMapView *mapView;

@end

ViewController.m

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

    [self initViews];
    [self initConstraints];

    [self addAllPins];
}

-(void)initViews
{
    self.mapView = [[MKMapView alloc] init];
    self.mapView.delegate = self;
    self.mapView.showsUserLocation = YES;

    MKCoordinateRegion region = self.mapView.region;

    region.center = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(12.9752297537231, 80.2313079833984);

    region.span.longitudeDelta /= 1.0; // Bigger the value, closer the map view
    region.span.latitudeDelta /= 1.0;
    [self.mapView setRegion:region animated:NO]; // Choose if you want animate or not

    [self.view addSubview:self.mapView];
}

-(void)initConstraints
{
    self.mapView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;

    id views = @{
                 @"mapView": self.mapView
                 };

    [self.view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|[mapView]|" options:0 metrics:nil views:views]];

    [self.view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|[mapView]|" options:0 metrics:nil views:views]];
}

-(void)addAllPins
{
    self.mapView.delegate=self;

    NSArray *name=[[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:
                   @"VelaCherry",
                   @"Perungudi",
                   @"Tharamani", nil];

    NSMutableArray *arrCoordinateStr = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:name.count];

    [arrCoordinateStr addObject:@"12.970760345459, 80.2190093994141"];
    [arrCoordinateStr addObject:@"12.9752297537231, 80.2313079833984"];
    [arrCoordinateStr addObject:@"12.9788103103638, 80.2412414550781"];

    for(int i = 0; i < name.count; i++)
    {
        [self addPinWithTitle:name[i] AndCoordinate:arrCoordinateStr[i]];
    }
}

-(void)addPinWithTitle:(NSString *)title AndCoordinate:(NSString *)strCoordinate
{
    MKPointAnnotation *mapPin = [[MKPointAnnotation alloc] init];

    // clear out any white space
    strCoordinate = [strCoordinate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];

    // convert string into actual latitude and longitude values
    NSArray *components = [strCoordinate componentsSeparatedByString:@","];

    double latitude = [components[0] doubleValue];
    double longitude = [components[1] doubleValue];

    // setup the map pin with all data and add to map view
    CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(latitude, longitude);

    mapPin.title = title;
    mapPin.coordinate = coordinate;

    [self.mapView addAnnotation:mapPin];
}

If you zoom out a little, you'll see all three pins: