AugmentedYellowPages

This entire project was built on a Sunday as an exploration into the new ARKit framework of iOS 11. It is not meant as a production release what so ever, as such the code needs cleaned up. I wanted to see if I could plot nearby businesses using the YellowPages API and ARKit. With the help of ARKit-CoreLocation by Andrew Hart, plotting nodes to real-world coordinates was trivial. Be sure to check out that project, as you'll need it to compile this one! :)

To get up & running:

Set up ARCL using CocoaPods

1. Add to your podfile:

pod 'ARCL'

2. In Terminal, navigate to your project folder, then:

pod update

pod install

3. Add NSCameraUsageDescription and NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription to plist with a brief explanation (see demo project for an example)

Modifying SceneLocationView.swift

Because I used a custom LocationNode class to allow me to draw text & an image inside a box, I needed to modify Andrew Hart's SceneLocationView class to support the updating of custom node objects, as it currently only supports his LocationAnnotationNode. Simple enough, just include a block as an instance variable to parse the new node.

1. Inside SceneLocationView.swift (and within the class itself) include the line:

public var customNodeUpdateBlock: ((LocationNode)->Void)?

2. Inside SceneLocationView.updatePositionAndScaleOfLocationNode(locationNode: , initialSetup: , animated: , duration: ), at the bottom ABOVE SCNTransaction.commit() include:

if let nodeBlock = customNodeUpdateBlock {
nodeBlock(locationNode)
}

Register for a YellowPages API key

1. http://developer.yellowapi.com/apps/register
2. FindBusinesses API Documentation
3. Include your sandboxed API key in the ViewController.swift by replacing YOUR-API-KEY-HERE with your new API key from YellowAPI.com

Bugs: There are plenty

• If you're too close to a nearby Restaurant, it will display the restaurant name as a massive text box on top of you.
• I was testing from home, with nearly all of the nearby restaurants being >500m away. Testing in a food court, all of the names appear in nearly the same position as the phone, greatly affecting readability of the signs.
• Feel free to adjust the scaling & distance values within ARCL's SceneLocationView class to your liking.
• Only searches YellowPages.com by using YellowAPI, often resulting in mismatched restaurants.
• It's pretty ugly. Sorry.
• Nearly non-existent error handling. Often just logs an error to the console.
• Lots more. This was a weekend project, and I'm genuinely impressed with how far I made it in a day. I might look at it again in the future.

Who Am I

24 year old (currently) Indie iOS Developer from Ontario, Canada. @StephenHeaps