New Features: Mapbox

[sarp86]

Thank you for this nice project!

1. Would be nice if you could also implement mapbox map to carplay. We would be very happy. https://pub.dev/packages/mapbox_gl
2. Playing radio would be nice too

Best regards from Germany :-)

[JaffaKetchup]

Instead of using MapBox, can I suggest 'flutter_map'? It supports many more sources and much more configuration.

[sarp86]

Hey JaffaKetchup,

thank you for your fast response.

We implement mapbox to our app's, we decided to go forward with mapbox because of stability and feature set.
It would be huge effort to change it to other map. I would pleased if you could implement mapbox too.

Thank you!

[oguzhnatly]

Thank you so much for your supports and opinions in the discussion, @sarp86 and @JaffaKetchup. I really appreciate it!

First and foremost, I'd like to state that this package will support as many packages as possible at the same time. That's why you shouldn't be concerned 😊. However, that I'm the only developer of this project, it may take some time to complete all of them. I'm currently working on the CarPlay Voice Control and Now Playing Music System. So that, you will be able to use voice control, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and play music or radio. It's nearly completed at this time.

For Map, I currently do not plan to implement flutter_map in the first plan because Native MapBox has CarPlay functionalities and it is much easier and faster to implement this package for Flutter than a flutter native map. However, this does not indicate that the flutter native map will never support this package; it will, but not in the initial plan. It makes no sense whether the flutter map package supports more sources or more configuration. CarPlay severely restricts many of its functionalities, since it has constant configurations which they are unchangeable. Consequently, MapBox Native Package will be the first plan to implement to the flutter_carplay package.

For now, you can track the development activity of version 1.1 here. I plan to release Mapbox implementations in version 1.2 or in its beta. If you all or anyone is interested in and wants to help and contribute, join our Discord Flutter Auto Technologies Server or send me an email or a pull request so that we can improve all of our applications as soon as possible. 🚀

If you have any further questions or requests in this queue, you can continue to write in this issue. Greetings to Germany and UK :)

[JaffaKetchup]

I can understand that you only have you to develop the package. (I also am an independent package maintainer/development). Make sure you don't get yourself too stressed!

The new features sound cool!

I can understand also why you won't implement flutter_map, was only suggesting because it is more customizable (and I develop a plugin for it, so I get those juicy GitHub stars 🤣).

Likewise, I say hello to Turkey :)