Launch Google Map or Apple Map to show route

Learn how to open Google Maps and/or Apple Maps to show direction between the user’s position and the destination. Using Swift 5 and Xcode 12.

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

Environment : Xcode 12 & UIKit

Open Xcode > new project > Storyboard Interface and call it MapDirection

Create a new Swift file from Xcode and call it OpenMapDirections, then copy/paste the following code in it:

We will use the above code to present an alert controller with 2 actions: one for opening Google Maps, the other to open Apple Maps. Here we pass the coordinate for both directly. Note that for Google Maps, we are using an URL, for Apple it’s handling through the MapKit framework.

Head back to your ViewController, we will present the alert from there to open the map. Copy/paste the following button declaration over the viewDidLoad method:

Then, we set up the button and pass it the function that we created at first:

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