More of a discussion question for folks that have used Googl

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More of a discussion question for folks that have used Google <https developers google com maps documentation android sdk maps compose|Maps Compose Library> I m starting on a new project and we re going to be 100 compose but a big feature of our project is a map view I ve never worked with maps before and I m curious to hear if anyone has used it before and found any issues or any missing apis Or is it pretty much a 1 1 drop in replacement for the view based google maps library

FunkyMuse · Answer

I ve used it for a pet project and it was okay until i had to add a window info adapter and was stopped by The pet project is somewhat a rewrite of an app i had having 4 screens with maps and each of them handles from 20 000 50 000 markers with custom info window UI and pins Also it s missing cluster manager which is crucial for that amount of info So I postponed the migration for now and would definitely use an Android view and handle things manually like I would in a fragment for now at least

nitrog42 · Answer

I also fiddled with the Maps Compose the issue with the cluster manager missing is not that we don t have visual clusters on the map but rather we can t display a high number of markers without having a big freeze even with compose we have to iterate on a list of +1000 elements and create a node for each then the render starts to fall and freeze when the composition is complete

nitrog42 · Answer

basically if you don t need a high marker count rendered and won t have any of the things listed here needed <https github com googlemaps android maps compose issues> you should be good to go

nitrog42 · Answer

a trick that can be used for the high markers count is to only display a small numbers based on the current viewport for example or do some kind of clustering but on the compose side

Colton Idle · Answer

Gotcha I will definitely have a high marker count So I won t use this for now I guess I can just put a regular maps view into AndroidView and still use it in my fully compose app

nitrog42 · Answer

you definitelly can but it s a bit hacky

Colton Idle · Answer

damn okay back to the drawing board

nitrog42 · Answer

you can use this as a starting point <https github com android compose samples tree b343f3780b2e384a414227282ab8e8eeb190bd1e Crane app src main java androidx compose samples crane details|https github com android compose samples tree b343f3780b2e384a414227282ab8e8eeb1 Crane app src main java androidx compose samples crane details>

nitrog42 · Answer

we definitelly got it working on our apps it s just that it s hard to make this block clean with many features

nitrog42 · Answer

but we implemented clustering some camera follow of the user position etc I d show the code if I could confused

Colton Idle · Answer

Thanks Yeah I tseems like I just need a map with clustering support and then basically being able to click on these pins individually I m new to Google Maps and so I m super limited in my knowledge with it but cool

Colton Idle · Answer

Glad to know someone that has done this I might reach out directly in the coming weeks months if you don t mind if I start banging my head against a wall The google maps api has me nervous lol I m glad I didn t just start with maps compose Thank you all

nitrog42 · Answer

no problem

nitrog42 · Answer

by the way if you start this in the coming weeks months I have probably false hopes that the clustering will be available by then

Colton Idle · Answer

yeah i need this done by end of may so its something i probably wont hold out on lol