How to place Animated Annotations on iPhone MapKit ?

This examples shows how to place animated annotation on iPhone Map. You can also get Coordinates of the places where you drop the annotation.

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Code for .h file.

#import
#import

@interface RootViewController : UIViewController {
   
    IBOutlet MKMapView *mapView;
    MKReverseGeocoder *reverseGeocoder;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) MKReverseGeocoder *reverseGeocoder;
@property (nonatomic, retain) MKMapView *mapView;

@end

Code for .m file.

#import "RootViewController.h"
#import "DDAnnotation.h"
#import "DDAnnotationView.h"

@interface RootViewController ()
- (void)coordinateChanged_:(NSNotification *)notification;
@end

@implementation RootViewController
@synthesize reverseGeocoder, mapView;

NSMutableArray* arrNotification;

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    arrNotification = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
    CLLocationCoordinate2D theCoordinate;
    theCoordinate.latitude = 26.926;
    theCoordinate.longitude = 75.8235;
    MKCoordinateRegion region;
    region.center = theCoordinate;
    MKCoordinateSpan span;
    span.latitudeDelta = 0.005;
    span.longitudeDelta = 0.005;
    region.span=span;
    [mapView setRegion:region animated:TRUE];
   
    DDAnnotation *annotation = [[[DDAnnotation alloc] initWithCoordinate:theCoordinate addressDictionary:nil] autorelease];
    annotation.title = @"Drag to Move Pin";
    annotation.subtitle = @"Tripolia Bazar, Biseswarji, Pink City, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India";
   
    [self.mapView addAnnotation:annotation];
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
   
    return YES;
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
   
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
   
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(coordinateChanged_:) name:@"DDAnnotationCoordinateDidChangeNotification" object:nil];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
   
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
   
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:@"DDAnnotationCoordinateDidChangeNotification" object:nil];   
}


- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
   
}

- (void)viewDidUnload {
   
    self.mapView.delegate = nil;
    self.mapView = nil;
}

- (void)dealloc {
    mapView.delegate = nil;
    [mapView release];
    [super dealloc];
}

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark DDAnnotationCoordinateDidChangeNotification

- (void)coordinateChanged_:(NSNotification *)notification {
   
    [arrNotification addObject:notification.object];
    DDAnnotation *annotation = notification.object;
    self.reverseGeocoder =
    [[[MKReverseGeocoder alloc] initWithCoordinate:annotation.coordinate] autorelease];
   
    reverseGeocoder.delegate = self;
    [reverseGeocoder start];   
}

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark MKMapViewDelegate

- (void)reverseGeocoder:(MKReverseGeocoder *)geocoder didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    NSString *errorMessage = [error localizedDescription];
    UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Cannot obtain address."
                                                        message:errorMessage
                                                       delegate:nil
                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
                                              otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alertView show];
    [alertView release];
}

- (void)reverseGeocoder:(MKReverseGeocoder *)geocoder didFindPlacemark:(MKPlacemark *)placemark{
   
    DDAnnotation *annotation = [arrNotification objectAtIndex:0];
    NSDictionary *dictAddress = placemark.addressDictionary;
    NSString *strAddress = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [dictAddress objectForKey:@"FormattedAddressLines"]];
    strAddress = [strAddress stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"(" withString:@""];
    strAddress = [strAddress stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@")" withString:@""];
    strAddress = [strAddress stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\"" withString:@""];
    strAddress = [strAddress stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"  " withString:@""];
    strAddress = [strAddress stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@" "];
    annotation.subtitle = [NSString    stringWithFormat:@"%@", strAddress];
    [arrNotification removeLastObject];
}


- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView annotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)annotationView didChangeDragState:(MKAnnotationViewDragState)newState fromOldState:(MKAnnotationViewDragState)oldState {
   
    if (oldState == MKAnnotationViewDragStateDragging) {
        DDAnnotation *annotation = (DDAnnotation *)annotationView.annotation;
        annotation.subtitle = [NSString    stringWithFormat:@"%f %f", annotation.coordinate.latitude, annotation.coordinate.longitude];       
    }
}

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id )annotation {
   
    if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[MKUserLocation class]]) {
        return nil;       
    }
   
    static NSString * const kPinAnnotationIdentifier = @"PinIdentifier";
    MKAnnotationView *draggablePinView = [self.mapView dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier:kPinAnnotationIdentifier];
   
    if (draggablePinView) {
        draggablePinView.annotation = annotation;
    }
    else {
        draggablePinView = [DDAnnotationView annotationViewWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:kPinAnnotationIdentifier mapView:self.mapView];
       
        if ([draggablePinView isKindOfClass:[DDAnnotationView class]]) {
           
        }
        else {
           
        }
    }       
   
    return draggablePinView;
}

@end