How to open Waze and browse by address
Good night, folks
How do I open Waze in the app and set the address via string (I want to navigate directly by address, not by coordinates) At the moment, I am doing as follows:
func showWazeNaviationWithUrl(_ strURL: String) {
if let url = URL(string: "waze://") {
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
if let url = URL(string: strURL) {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}
} else {
//Waze is not installed. Launch AppStore to install Waze app
if let url = URL.init(string: "https://itunes.apple.com/app/id323229106") {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}
}
In another class that fires this method, I have the following:
func startNavigation(address: String) {
var allowedQueryParamAndKey = NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed
allowedQueryParamAndKey.remove(charactersIn: ";/?:@&=+$, ")
let _address = address.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: allowedQueryParamAndKey)
let strURL = String(format: "https://waze.com/ul?ll=%@&navigate=yes", _address!)
self.delegate?.showWazeNaviationWithUrl(strURL)
}
After all this is executed, the app opens however, it does not open the navigation window... It just stands still on the map.
My string with the address is as follows shape:
"https://waze.com/ul?ll=R%20VISCONDE%20DE%20URUGUAI%20%2C%20311%20%20-%20CENTRONiter%C3%B3i%20-%20RJ&navigate=yes"
2 answers
Basically, your query URL is wrong. Looking at the documentation of Waze , you can verify that you are using the parameter ?ll=... instead of the ?q=..., that is, you are looking through a parameter of Latitude and Longitude for an address.
Thus, to search the correct parameter (an address in an address), you must replace the following line:
let strURL = String(format: "https://waze.com/ul?ll=%@&navigate=yes", _address!)
By:
let strURL = String(format: "https://waze.com/ul?q=%@&navigate=yes", _address!)
Also, I could observe that the address you pass as times does not find a result, as in the example below, where you search for:
R VISCONDE DE URUGUAI , 311 - CENTRONiterói - RJ
If you check, the neighborhood and City are together, causing no results to appear. The test I did was changing the URL to the parameter ?q= and with the following address:
R VISCONDE DE URUGUAI , 311 Niterói
With these changes, you will begin to have correct results in the integration between your application and Waze.
If you build using iOS SDK 9.0 and newer, you will need to add the following code to the Info file.plist of your app to include Waze:
<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>waze</string>
</array>
The following code example will navigate to latitude / longitude if Waze is installed. Otherwise, the Apple app store will open for the user to install the App:
- (void) navigateToLatitude:(double)latitude longitude:(double)longitude
{
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication]
canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"waze://"]]) {
// O Waze está instalado. Inicia o Waze e a navegação com base na latitude e longitude
NSString *urlStr =
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://waze.com/ul?ll=%f,%f&navigate=yes",
latitude, longitude];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlStr]];
} else {
// O Waze não está instalado. Inicia a AppStore para instalar o Waze
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL
URLWithString:@"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id323229106"]];
}
}
If you need to convert an address to latitude and longitude, use CoreLocation as in the example below:
import CoreLocation
var geocoder = CLGeocoder()
geocoder.geocodeAddressString("Seu endereço") {
placemarks, error in
let placemark = placemarks?.first
let latitude = placemark?.location?.coordinate.latitude
let longitude = placemark?.location?.coordinate.longitude
print("Lat: \(latitude), Lon: \(longitude)")
}