2.9 KiB

Raw Blame History

Place Tracker

A sample place tracking app that uses the google_maps_flutter plugin. Keep track of your favorite places, places you've visited, and places you want to go. View details about these places, show them on a map, and get directions to them.

This sample is not currently in a finished state. We're in the process of building it out. This sample currently only works on Android (see Caveat below).

Goals

Learn how to create an interface composed of GoogleMap and other widgets.
Learn how to show, control, and modify a GoogleMap widget.
Learn how to place a marker on a map.

The important bits

`place_map.dart`

This page shows a full-screen GoogleMap widget with place markers. Provides examples of how to stack other widgets on top of a GoogleMap widget, how to add markers to a map, and how to make other flutter widgets interact with the GoogleMap widget.

`place_details.dart`

This page shows a detailed view of a single place. Provides examples of how to place a GoogleMap widget inside of a ListView and how to disable certain touch gestures on the map.

Getting Started

To run this sample app, you will need an API key.

Get an API key at https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/.

Specify your API key in the application manifest android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:

<manifest ...
  <application ...
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
               android:value="YOUR KEY HERE"/>

For additional help setting up the plugin, see the plugin's README page.

For help getting started with Flutter, view our online documentation.

Caveat

The google_maps_flutter plugin provides an unpublished preview of the Flutter API for Google Maps:

Dart APIs for controlling and interacting with a GoogleMap view from Flutter code are still being consolidated and expanded. The intention is to grow current coverage into a complete offering. Issues and pull requests aimed to help us prioritize and speed up this effort are very welcome.
Currently the plugin only supports Android as it embeds a platform view in the Flutter hierarchy which is currently only supported for Android (tracking issue).

Questions/issues

If you have a general question about any of the techniques you see in the sample, the best places to go are:

If you run into an issue with the sample itself, please file an issue in the main Flutter repo.

2.9 KiB Raw Blame History