I’d like to report an interesting thing with the MapView. Prior to 27, Google Maps was working just fine.
After 27 the following happened:
- On TestFlight the map style would not render for some iOS users. Both with base default and a custom style.
- In an iOS Simulator ipa install, the map style would never render.
- However on both Testflight and Simulator, the markers and such would still paint and the Google logo showed up, and the map was interactive. ONLY that the base style (roads, buildings, etc) does not load.
- On Expo, the map worked normally as before.
Upon activating the iOS SDK on Google API Console (attached to the given API key), fixes this problem 100% across the board.
So I suspect the “bug” is that it appears MapView recently is not able to grab the native Google Maps installation on the phone. The bug is not device specific because it occurred to random people on our beta testing team, even with the same devices running. Is there something with cacheEnabled? (We don’t set that option).
Again the funny thing is that the map is fully operational, meaning you can drag and zoom. It just simply doesn’t load the tiles.