How to dismissPopoverAnimated on iPad with UIPopoverController in MKMapView (SDK3.2)

Question

I have a MKMapView (also a UIPopoverControllerDelegate) with Annotations. This MapView has, in the MKTestMapView.h file, a UIPopoverController* popoverCo

Answer 1

Here is another simple solution.

I found that we should follow the following steps for clearly dismissing popovers.

1. dismiss a popover.
2. release a view loaded by the popover.

Before iOS8, almost all of us may release a view loaded by a popover first, and then we programmatically dismiss the popover. However, in iOS8, we do the steps in revers.

Before iOS8, my code of dismissing a popover

// creating a popover loading an image picker
picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
...
pickerPopover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:picker];
[pickerPopover presentPopoverFromRect:aFrame inView:aView permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];

// dismissing the popover
[picker.view removeFromSuperview]; // (1) release a view loaded by a popover
[picker release], picker = nil;

if( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad ) {
    [pickerPopover dismissPopoverAnimated:YES]; // (2) dismiss the popover
}

In iOS8, the dismissing code part should be changed as below,

if( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad ) {
    [pickerPopover dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];  // (2) dismiss the popover first
}

[picker.view removeFromSuperview]; // (1) and then release the view loaded by the popover
[picker release], picker = nil;