Swift UI and Their Integration to MapKit Technology as a Framework for Representing Spatial Information in Mobile Applications

Mobile applications are becoming as complex as the kind of problems we need to solve. A normal GIS application needs to incorporate elements such as artificial intelligence more specifically, pattern recognition or machine learning, relational or non-relational databases, spatial representation, and reasoning. In addition to that, it is necessary to design and develop a mobile application to integrate all these elements. After analysis, planning, and design a company will require to develop a full team of engineers to accomplish an application. On the other hand, universities and other organizations, have additional interests. It is necessary to develop a mobile application to test a hypothesis before a large development project. The necessity is to use a technology that permits the integration of advanced technologies and programming tools in a manageable sense. Companies such as Google and Apple are reducing the gap of learning knowledge. They are developing new technologies. For example, Apple presented in 2019 at WWDC2019 and WWDC2020 a novelty technology called SwiftUI, which aims to reduce the complexity of developing a mobile application and allowing us to integrate technology such as Mapkit to represent spatial information. This work presents the advantages of using SwiftUI to integrate Mapkit as a spatial representation framework to ease the development of GIS mobile development. And focus on the problem solution, such as spatial representation and reasoning, robot planning, content image retrieval, etc.