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Inline Google Maps support #73
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Thursday Jul 16, 2015 at 22:26 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/flutter/engine/issues/30
From @collinjackson on July 8, 2015 20:23
We are going to want to have support for maps in Sky.
There are a few ways we might go about doing this:
- Use native maps widget for each platform to render the map
- Use maps widget for each platform to render to a texture and draw the map ourselves
- Develop a custom maps SDK for Sky
The second option would be ideal but may not be possible. We should investigate which approach is best and build a demo app.
Copied from original issue: domokit/mojo#310
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FlutterIssues commentedon Nov 9, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015 at 19:35 GMT
We might need this for the Fitness app, depending.
Hixie commentedon Dec 16, 2015
This is presumably going to be a "third-party" component, right?
collinjackson commentedon Dec 16, 2015
We'll almost certainly want to use some non-Dart SDK to provide Maps support, so yes.
eseidelGoogle commentedon May 13, 2016
We expect developers will use Maps by using a "native" iOS or Android maps view, per:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DOfwpL6VojCAG_zjjcA_z5ekF7rTIohV8dWn2o7_IME/edit
a14n commentedon May 13, 2016
I don't see in this doc descriptions of how to integrate native widget (like Maps) into your flutter apps. Have I missed something ?
eseidelGoogle commentedon May 13, 2016
Sorry, I may have been a bit overzealous in my linking. Said doc is pre-work for Flutter to participate as a normal View inside Obj-C/Java applications. The path to add other Obj-C/Java code to them is not yet documented, no.
tjerkw commentedon Sep 7, 2016
As a developer i really want to use the native Google Maps component to render inside my flutter app. I just created a flutter app and this is kind of a blocker. The only solution is to build it in Java/Android and open it when clicking a flutter button.
Ideally I would like a 'NativeView' in flutter, which renders a native widget inside flutter.
This is probably quite difficult because you have merge rendering / events into the flutter rendering engine.
It also goes against the flutter 'one widget for both platforms'. However, sometimes complex widgets (like a map) are really something you want to reuse.
Goutte commentedon Dec 2, 2016
Hello ! I would love to know the roadmap of this feature, or even if one even exists. I have two mobile apps in the works and both rely heavily on a map. I love Dart, and I'm looking for an excuse to try Flutter.
The solution with
FlutterViewlooks overly complicated, from the point of view of a rookie who has never written a single line of Flutter. The other solutions do not suit my need, I need a fully interactive map.I don't know how hairy that is to implement in Flutter, nor if you even plan to implement it someday. Any info would be appreciated. I guess the resolution of this issue will be my signal to start development with Flutter.
debunge commentedon Jan 8, 2017
Is there any chance maps will be implemented in 2017? I love Dart and would like very much to use Flutter, but I really need non-static maps, like showing points of interest nearby and showing the description upon the click on the point.
owenthereal commentedon Jan 17, 2017
Any updates on this?
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amirh commentedon Nov 10, 2018
Note that if you want to try it out on iOS you will need to enable the preview flag, see more details on:
#19030 (comment)
feinstein commentedon Nov 10, 2018
I thinks this information should be included in the Readme.md for the library.
Are there any plans to move this to not be an in-line solution, so I can place buttons top of the map, a bottom sheet, a drawer layout?
amirh commentedon Nov 10, 2018
I'm planning to improve the documentation soon.
Not sure what you mean regarding not being an in-line solution? Flutter widgets can be placed on top of the map now.
feinstein commentedon Nov 10, 2018
Ohh, that's great! I remember reading there couldn't be any widgets on top of the map, as if it was a different rendering layer. Is this valid for ios and android?
nosmirck commentedon Jan 28, 2019
After trying the maps plugin and messing around with platform views widgets, I came to this post, the very original post, and I can say that option 3 would have been a much better option.
I'd like to know, is there a reason why no one chose to create an actual widget for maps from scratch? I mean, the whole power for it is there! Skia is powerful enough to create it's own renderer for buildings and roads using simple graphics, or is it not possible to do so from Dart? I checked the code from rendering a simple box from Dart to the engine and I see it's possible.
I understand there's a technical reason we need platform views, but, maps needs "native" flutter SDK, or what's the plan for Fuchsia? Keep leveraging Android's SDK to render maps? It's nonsense!
We already have a platform view that seems to be working fine, might need optimizations, but the teams can now just drop this maps implementation (basically two, one per platform) and start working on an actual maps for Flutter that would technically work on any future platform that flutter gives support, including hummingbird, PC, Mac and Linux (and many more).
It's the best way, and you now it. The maps plugin for Unity3D doesn't use the native view, it's entirely custom for the engine and with amazing customizability! We need that for Flutter too, it's much more rich and useful than what a platform view of a map can do.
Also, it will bring an idea for us, developers, on how actually use the graphics engine on a low level to build other stuff.
I hope you guys don't take this wrong, but, I truly believe that the maps plugin through platform views already fulfilled his goal: to make possible native views to be rendered as widgets.
Oh, before I end this: I thought that maybe this could extend to WebViews (having an actual browser engine that renders using skia) is something useful, maybe not, maybe it's just too much (for now) but would solve the issue of having different renderers for WebViews per platform (like the intention of the flutter maps), however, an integration with chrome engine somehow would be amazing, I mean, if the platform is able of running chromium it could technically serve as a web renderer and provide a channel to render WebViews inside Flutter.
That's it! I'm going to bed now :)
hundeva commentedon Jan 28, 2019
I assume that the very long time plan is to develop something independent from the underlying platform (option 3). However, in the meanwhile, this was a "low hanging fruit", to support the current two main platforms. I have no doubt that before long, third party solutions will pop up, for example nothing stops noone from creating an OSM package.
Pass supports_android attribute through in `java_prebuilt` (flutter#73)
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