this is pretty easy to test - just turn on airplane mode I know from experience that the built in map app will fail to render tiles silently if it can't connect
I wouldn't expect it to automatically notify the user - most of the APIs should have failure/error events that I would expect to be called if network connections failed On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:27 PM, MilkyJoe <[email protected]>wrote: > I need some general advice on how best to implement (say) a map. > > Do I need to check that the phone is connected to the internet (via network > or wi-fi) prior to utilising a MapView? > Do I need to check whether or not the location service is enabled for my > app? > > I guess I'm asking whether or not the iPhone will just "deal" with such > scenarios, by alerting the user where necessary. > > For example, will the user's location simply not appear on the map if the > location service is disabled? Will the map simply not render tiles (i.e. > fail silently) if the iPhone has no interent access? > > Thanks > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Advice-Needed-Dealing-with-no-internet-and-or-disabled-services-tp3994698p3994698.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >
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