How to stop the viewForAnnotation method from overriding the default user location blue beacon in iOS

Question

Right now I am populating a map view with annotations, and also displaying the user's current location. With the viewForAnnotation method, it overrides all annotations with the default red pin, but I want to return the views for the other annotations, but keep the user location the default blue beacon. Is there a way to do this simply or do I have to create a new annotation view and return the right one depending on the annotation?

Right now I have something like:

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation
{
    if (annotation.coordinate == locationManager.location.coordinate) {

return nil;

    }else {

    MKAnnotationView *annotationView = [[MKPinAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:@"Beacon"];

    // Button
    UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure];
    button.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 23, 23);
    annotationView.rightCalloutAccessoryView = button;


    annotationView.canShowCallout = YES;

    return annotationView;
}
}

But I can't equate the two because I can't get the coordinate property out of the annotation argument.

Anybody know any solutions to this?

calimarkus · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-05T04:49:05.283

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Check out the documentation here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MapKit/Reference/MKMapViewDelegate_Protocol/MKMapViewDelegate/MKMapViewDelegate.html

As it states:

If the object in the annotation parameter is an instance of the MKUserLocation class, you can provide a custom view to denote the user’s location. To display the user’s location using the default system view, return nil.

You can check for it like so:

if([annotation isKindOfClass: [MKUserLocation class]]) {
  return nil;
}

Swift:

guard annotation as? MKUserLocation == nil else { return nil }

edited Apr 05 '22 at 04:49

answered Aug 01 '12 at 20:49

calimarkus

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lullll im stupid, much appreciated, I was trying all of these stupid work arounds but yeah... – Hudson Buddy Aug 02 '12 at 00:10
thanks so much! i must learn to stop being such a newb with apple's documentation – Hudson Buddy Aug 02 '12 at 00:12
worked like a charm in less than 1 min. Please come to the party. I was searching for this since last 3-4 hours. Thanks, buddy. – Ravi Nov 02 '19 at 10:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '20 at 05:35

Swift 5.0

Put a check at the top of the function to ignore the userLocation:

   func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, viewFor annotation: MKAnnotation) -> MKAnnotationView? {
        guard annotation as? MKUserLocation != mapView.userLocation else { return }

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