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Get Route Instructions

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

In this guide you will learn how to get the text instructions for a computed route. These are the instructions also spoken by the voice guide during real or simulated navigation.

Setup​

  1. Get your Magic Lane API key token: if you do not have a token, see the Getting Started guide.
  2. See the Setup Maps SDK for iOS guide.
  3. Download the RouteInstructions project example or clone the project with Git.
  4. Extract/unpack the MapView project archive to a folder/directory of your choice. You can create a new directory where to unpack it.

Open the Project​

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Start Xcode, and in the welcome dialog, choose Open an existing project.

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If Xcode is already started, go to the File menu and choose Open.

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Select the MapView.xcodeproj file and click Open.

Verify that Maps SDK for iOS is configured in Xcode, see the Setup Maps SDK for iOS guide.

Set the API key token​

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In any of the Maps SDK for iOS example projects, click the AppDelegate.swift file and scroll down to the getProjectApiToken() function, and replace YOUR_TOKEN with your actual Magic Lane API Key token, see the Getting Started guide.

The project is now ready to build and run!

Run the example​

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Either connect a device via USB cable, or select a virtual device.

Run the RouteInstructions example.

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Click the blue route icon in the upper right corner to compute the route and render it on the map.

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Click the blue list icon in the upper left corner to display the route instructions.

iOS Examples​

Maps SDK for iOS Examples can be downloaded or cloned with Git.