CLLocation Manager in Swift to get Location of User

Question

I am trying to convert an old app in ObjC to Swift as a practice exercise and have ran in to some issues. The way I had it in the old app, it was establishing the CLLocatio

Answer 1

I'm not sure why, but it seems like startUpdatingLocation isn't presenting the user prompt on the iOS 7 simulator, but when I enabled it manually it worked as expected if I used the newer form of the delegate method:

var manager:CLLocationManager!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

    manager = CLLocationManager()
    manager.delegate = self
    manager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest
    manager.startUpdatingLocation()
}

func locationManager(manager:CLLocationManager, didUpdateLocations locations:[AnyObject]) { // Updated to current array syntax [AnyObject] rather than AnyObject[]
    println("locations = \(locations)")
}

The format you're using has been deprecated since iOS 5 or 6, so apparently it's not supported at all by the swift bridging layers.