Add AdvancedMarkerManager Collection

[jan-kozinski]

Hi everybody, I'm trying to add AdvancedMarkers support to the react-native-maps library, but the progress is blocked by a lack of AdvancedMarkerManager collection package

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The library react-native-maps utilises com.google.maps.android.collections.MarkerManager package. Now, I wanted to implement the Advanced Markers in the library, but since there is no AdvancedMarkerManager collection package, the progress is blocked.

Describe the solution you'd like com.google.maps.android.collections.AdvancedMarkerManager package is added

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context The MapManager collection is used in those two files

• https://github.com/react-native-maps/react-native-maps/blob/master/android/src/main/java/com/rnmaps/maps/MapView.java

• https://github.com/react-native-maps/react-native-maps/blob/master/android/src/main/java/com/rnmaps/maps/MapMarker.java

  When I try to swith the Markers to AdvancedMarkers, I'm getting the following error react-native-maps/android/src/main/java/com/rnmaps/maps/MapMarker.java:432 error: incompatible types: Marker cannot be converted to AdvancedMarker marker = markerCollection.addMarker(getAdvancedMarkerOptions());

  Troublesome lines are

  public void addToMap(Object collection) {
  MarkerManager.Collection markerCollection = (MarkerManager.Collection) collection;
  marker = markerCollection.addMarker(getAdvancedMarkerOptions());
  updateTracksViewChanges();
  }

[wangela]

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[jan-kozinski]

Just checked with the code and the existing MarkerManager.Collection supports the AdvancedMarkers collection. The error can be solved by casting the type AdvancedMarker

AdvancedMarker marker = (AdvancedMarker) markerCollection.addMarker(getAdvancedMarkerOptions());