ios mapkit closing annotation callouts by tapping the map

Question

I\'ve got a mapkit app that places annotations on the map, when you press them, it shows the callout with the title attribute.

This works fine, but the user cannot c

Answer 1

You can implement the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate method gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer: and return YES (so the map view's own tap gesture recognizer will execute its method as well).

First, add the protocol declaration to your view controller's interface (to avoid a compiler warning):

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController 

Next, set the delegate property on the gesture recognizer:

tap.delegate = self;

Finally, implement the method:

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer 
    shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:
        (UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer
{
    return YES;
}

If that doesn't work out for some reason, you can alternatively de-select any currently selected annotation manually at the top of the handleTap: method:

for (id ann in mapView.selectedAnnotations) {
    [mapView deselectAnnotation:ann animated:NO];
}

Even though the map view only allows a maximum of one annotation to be selected at a time, the selectedAnnotations property is an NSArray so we loop through it.