Dependency on Google Service

[hariettem]

Curious what the lift for this would be? Love the app being open source but it's dependent on Google ecosystem. Making it unsuitable for degoogle phones.

[aaronbrethorst]

No idea, but we welcome PRs

[amrhossamdev]

Do you mean supporting Huawei devices for example without depending on Google play services ?

[MRELEC1R0N]

@aaronbrethorst @amrhossamdev We can consume another open-source library for maps like open street maps for devices that don't support Google play services.

[andrewpking]

I would love to use this app on my degoogled phone! How can I pitch in for rebasing to consume a non-Google maps api?

[barbeau]

FWIW, here's an example of using Gradle build flavors to support two separate builds of an app, one using Google Maps and one using OSMDroid:

• https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/blob/master/GPSTest/build.gradle

The catch is that the last time I checked, OSMDroid doesn't have the same API as Google maps. So you're basically talking about reimplementing all of the code that interacts directly with the Maps API. I did that in the above project so two different map Fragments are implemented, one for each build flavor.

• https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/blob/master/GPSTest/src/google/java/com/android/gpstest/ui/MapFragment.kt
• https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest/blob/master/GPSTest/src/osmdroid/java/com/android/gpstest/ui/MapFragment.kt

There might be a better way to do it today- maybe there's a new library wrapper for osm tiles that matches the Google Maps API.