title: Use of MBTiles in offline iOS app
body: <p>I already have a map stored using the MBTiles format that I want to use in an app I am making. It is vital that the app will run with no signal/connection on the mobile device.</p>
  
  <p>Mapbox previously had an example of how to use MBTiles together with RMMBTilesSource so that the mapping data could all be stored locally. This has now been deprecated, see <a href="https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-ios-example" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-ios-example</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I also enquired with Mapbox as to whether they were going to replace this example with another that was similar. In short, I was told that every device must populate its own cache from a direct request to Mapbox, so is not what I'm looking for.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know an alternative platform (or alternative implementation) that would allow me to embed and read a locally stored MBTiles file source?</p>