Balloons

Allow your users to display and customize balloons in a few lines of code.

Sample use case: You would like to learn more about a place on the map. Depending on the selected location, the app displays a balloon containing either text or additional information such as icons or pictures.

To display a balloon, attach a callout to a TTAnnotation. The map can display only one annotation at a time.

A callout can be triggered in two ways:

• Automatically, if the annotation is tapped on the map.
• Calling TTAnnotationManager:selectAnnotation.

There can be only one selected annotation on the map at a time.

A callout can be closed in the following ways:

• Automatically, if a user taps on the map.
• Automatically, if a user taps on another annotation.
• Calling TTAnnotationManager:deselectAnnotation if the annotation is attached to the map, it is removed from the map.

A callout is an instance of UIView that implements the TTCalloutView protocol. You can use one of the built-in callout views, such as the default TTCalloutViewSimple, or make your own custom balloon.

Default Balloons

The default behavior for an annotation is to display an instance of TTCalloutViewSimple containing the annotation’s coordinates. You can change the following properties:

• TTAnnotation:canShowCallout determines if the annotation can display a callout. The default value is YES. If it is set to NO, the annotation can still be selected but no callout will appear.
• TTAnnotation:selectable: determines if the annotation can be selected at all. The default value is YES. If it is set to NO, then no callout will be displayed.

To change the default text of a simple callout, register your delegate on the annotation manager and override the viewForSelectedAnnotation method:

mapView.annotationManager.delegate = self

self.mapView.annotationManager.delegate = self

1func annotationManager(_: TTAnnotationManager, viewForSelectedAnnotation selectedAnnotation: TTAnnotation) -> UIView & TTCalloutView {
2        return TTCalloutOutlineView(text: "\(selectedAnnotation.coordinate.latitude),\(selectedAnnotation.coordinate.longitude)")
3}

1- (UIView<TTCalloutView> *)annotationManager:(id<TTAnnotationManager>)manager viewForSelectedAnnotation:(TTAnnotation *)selectedAnnotation {
2        return [[TTCalloutOutlineView alloc] initWithText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f,%f", selectedAnnotation.coordinate.latitude, selectedAnnotation.coordinate.longitude]];
3}

Custom Balloons

Although you can use default callouts, the SDK also allows you to create fully customizable ones. A callout is nothing more than a Cocoa UIView implementing the TTCalloutView protocol. Callouts can be built by either Interface Builder or programmatically.

This is an example of a custom callout:

mapView.annotationManager.delegate = self

self.mapView.annotationManager.delegate = self;

var customAnnotation: TTAnnotation?

1@interface MapBallonsViewController () <TTAnnotationDelegate>
2@property(nonatomic, strong) TTAnnotation *customAnnotation;
3@end

1func annotationManager(_: TTAnnotationManager, viewForSelectedAnnotation selectedAnnotation: TTAnnotation) -> UIView & TTCalloutView {
2        return CustomCallout(frame: CGRect.zero)
3}

1- (UIView<TTCalloutView> *)annotationManager:(id<TTAnnotationManager>)manager viewForSelectedAnnotation:(TTAnnotation *)selectedAnnotation {
2        return [[CustomCallout alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
3}