A hacky little thing to fake locations in MKMapView and CLLocationManager.
The needed classes come as class extensions and two normal classes to imitate the behaviour of some classes needed.
This code is ment to be used in testing and not in AppStore apps! This code is in a very early state!
To prevent that the code is ran in a live app we are using a #ifdef FAKE_LOCATIONS macro in each file. See the example.
#import "MKMapView+FakeLocations in your ViewController. To let the mapview listen for fake locations do a [self.mapView listenForFakeLocations]. To stop do a [self.mapView stopListening]. Everything else should behave like you would expect.
#import "CLLocationManager+FakeLocations in your ViewController or location managment class. To let the location manager listen for fake locations do a [self.locationManager listenForFakeLocations]. To stop do a [self.locationManager stopListening]. Everything else should behave like you would expect. Right now the location manager will give you delegate calls for errors, heading and location updates.
Injection is done by using UDP sockets. Why's that? Because it enables everyone on the same WiFi knowing the IP of the phone to inject locations. On first sight this seems like a security flaw but it is great if your QA is not on a Mac (poor QA) or your test runner is a Linux maschine.
echo -n '{"latitude":52.12313131,"longitude":13.1231123123,"speed":40,"heading":100.1234,"verticalAccuracy":100,"horizontalAccuracy":200,"course":30.123}' | nc -4u -w1 <IPOFPHONE> 9931
You don't need to supply all keys but latitude and longitude. Every missing key will be a 0'
If you need to inject headings to your CLLocationMaanger you can do this via a UDB socket as well.
echo -n '{"magneticHeading":120.5,"trueHeading":110,"headingAccuracy":10}' | nc -4u -w1 <IPOFPHONE> 9931
As in locations missing keys will be a 0
This was inspired by and uses some code from SimulatorRemoteNotifications by @acoomans
Made by @plaetzchen while working at http://www.motor-talk.de