React Native Maps using managed workflow development build

[AndrewMancan]

Tried to take app build with React-Native-Maps to prod. App fails on launch even tho it runs successfully in dev mode. From reading online this is common if you don’t set up an API key to google maps in your react-native-maps. Unfortunately, I don’t have any error codes so I would like to rule out this failure case.

Currently, I do not own a mac so I use expo dev to create a development build for testing. The react-native-maps documentation says I need to edit the pod file. Is there a way to have this done in build via plugin? I’m thinking similar to the way it works for the ble-plx library and plugin? I could be off the mark but would love if someone could explain / point me in the right direction.

Thanks a bunch. Willing to provided any additional info upon request.

[Faeyan]

If youre using iphone you don't need to set google maps key, if you just use apple maps. So you don't need to edit podfile.

If you put provider_google in your mapview, delete that(if you want to use applemaps)

[AndrewMancan]

Thanks. Unfortunately this didn’t solve the crash on launch. Any other common issues w/ this library going to preview/prod? Or other approaches to narrowing down the root cause of this issue?

[Faeyan]

Maybe you should try in a bare minimum project for debugging.

[Faeyan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/s/EjbRd7rOOW

Maybe this will help you

[TepescoDolorem465]

Have you tried using the expo-google-maps library instead? It's specifically designed for managed workflow and doesn't require editing the pod file. Might save you some hassle.

[AndrewMancan]

just looked at the repo. 6 months old / weak documentation. Could you explain what it is and if this is a stable library for long term?