One of my apps connects to a flight simulator and displays the current position and flight path of the player's aircraft on a Mac or iOS device. I think my customers would love to view this on a big TV screen. From the list of supported frameworks, however, MapKit is missing. How can I petition adding it to the SDK? Do I need to file a bug report?
Yes, please file a bug report.
Thanks for the quick reply. There is no section for tvOS, however. Should I file it under Hardware/AppleTV, Other/Other, or wait until an appropriate section has been created?
Following your answer here. I also have a map that needs to be displayed for one of my apps.
Thanks!
There is now a tvOS and tvOS SDK section available on bugreporter - please file it under the tvOS SDK section.
I have have filed bug 22640125
Great I duped it because this clearly missing
Have you tried google maps api?
Just noticed mapkit missing myself when porting an app. My app can do without it, but I thought the classic real estate use case for Apple TV would be all over mapkit.
I just received a notification telling me that my bug report is a duplicate of 22638244.
So hopefully we will see this in a upcoming release (or hopefully beta release)
While waiting for Apple to get MapKit back into tvOS, I'm looking at https://www.mapbox.com.
Aaaaand walking through the "getting started", it requires the inclusion of other libaries that aren't in tvOS. D'oh.
This is super disappointing. There are so many use cases for MapKit in tvOS.
C'mon Apple - unleash the potential of this thing already!
Just came in here to post about the very same thing. The first thing I did after getting my Apple TV 4 on was to run Xcode and try and create a MapView.
I was wanting to work on a tvOS -app for an University project here in Finland - just started taking part in an Xcode Pop-up development course.
Been playing around with my app idea for quite some time, and it is only possible with MapView being available.
I'm guessing it's not there for tvOS 9.1 Beta either?