How To Use Google Maps In Xamarin Forms
To achieve that will use the xamarin essentials geolocation api.
How to use google maps in xamarin forms. To open a uri could use the class device. On the next page you will find a list of apis. Var openlocation new button text open location using built in maps app. Select xamarin googleplayservices maps and click install. You can show the google maps using the requesttileuri event of imagerylayer.
This article describes how to use google maps api to show google maps using imagerylayer of the sfmaps control. Copy the full code behind class here. For that we have to go to this page. Subscribe the requesttileuri event of imagerylayer as demonstrated in the following code example. Xamarin forms maps renders its native maps based on the os used by the device e g.
Namespace xamgooglemapsapp public class mapspage. When google maps is installed it tells the os that it s there and it can be called. Contentpage public mapspage var l new label text these buttons leave the current app and open the built in maps app for the platform. Then create a new project here and name it googlemapusingxamarinforms. Google maps for android and mapkit for ios which makes it easier for the android to have google maps of course.
You can check the full source code here. To determine if it s there we are going to check for it using xamarin essentials. Will keep publishing more content related to using google maps in xamarin forms how to add a css to style map handling a re routing logic etc so keep in touch. Forcing to open google maps by default on ios. Click browse and enter xamarin google play services maps in the search field.
Notice that the following dependency packages are also installed. Click on google maps android api. Openuri of xamarin forms but we also have to validate if we can open that uri so it s better using launch from xamarin. What i want to achieve here is to also have google maps for ios since the main map that we are using is google maps. According to the google s documentation to open google m aps on ios you have to use the url scheme comgooglemaps.