10.0.0-rc.2 June 23, 2021

The Mapbox Maps SDK for Android has moved to release candidate status and is now ready for production use.

Features ✨ and improvements 🏁

Introduce experimental Style#addPersistentLayer, Layer#isPersistent, Style#addPersistentStyleLayer, Style#addPersistentStyleCustomLayer and Style#isStyleLayerPersistent APIs, so that the tagged layer and its associated resources would remain when a style is reloaded. This improves performance of Annotation and Location Component Plugin during the style change. (#368, #422)
Add Localization API to apply languages to the style by provided locale. (#379)
Reduce unnecessary render cache texture updates by introducing a small delay after zoom has changed.
Save and read application state on a background thread, to avoid delays (~3-5ms) on the main thread.

Introduce size check for render cache. (#425)
Fix memory leak on render destroy. (#426)
Changes the visibility of jsonObject in annotation to protected, fix ConcurrentModificationException (#427)
Fix camera deadlock use-case. (#439)
Tileset descriptor resolving fixes:
- Operation completes even if the offline manager instance gets out of scope
- Fixes leaking TilesetResolverObserver instance
- Fixes possible crash on cancellation of pending style pack download operation
Fix text rendering when both 'text-rotate' and 'text-offset' are set.
Fix Android 12 compatibility to support pending intents mutability.