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The mobile app of the tankste! project.
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Uncouple from Playservices, use Openstreetmap provider #7

Closed KlausHans closed 2 years ago

KlausHans commented 2 years ago

Hello, promising project, nice.

I just tried to use it on LineageOs without installed Playservices. Unfortunately the App does not work without Playservices (no map). It would be really great to uncouple the app from it, e.g. use some Openstreetmapservice.

Fabi755 commented 2 years ago

Hey Klaus! Thanks for your Feedback!

We get some requests about apple map support (#4). And I have already thinking about multiple systems and basically about the open source idea. I think we should use different map types different platforms & app stores.

I would suggest:

OS Store Map Provider
Googles Android Play Store Google Maps
Other Android Systems f-droid.org, ... Open Street Map
iOS/iPad OS AppStore Apple Map

Sounds this good for you?

KlausHans commented 2 years ago

Sounds perfect to me. :+1: Thank you for the quick response.

kojid0 commented 2 years ago

What advantage comes from integrating 3 different map providers? I don't think Apple Map or Google Maps can offer a lot more than OpenStreetMap...

Fabi755 commented 2 years ago

It's near to the given OS and the user have a known environment (UI, gestures).

I get a lot of mails from iOS user that want to see Apple Maps instead of Google Maps. As an Android Users I prefer Google Maps. And for the open source Android projects without Play Service we need a third solution as well.

With a clean abstract solution we have little bit more work at the initial step. But after all basic things done, there is not a lot of work anymore. It all depends on the architecture :slightly_smiling_face: