How to set GoogleMaps with GMSServices provideAPIKey

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I previously had react-native-maps working on Android & iOS.

After upgrading to v31 my app crashes on iOS production environment. On Android, I never get permissions for location.

When I use xCode to follow the stacktrace I see this error logged.

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'GMSServicesException', reason: 'Google Maps SDK for iOS must be initialized via [GMSServices provideAPIKey:...] prior to use'

I Googled and found this

How can I provide the Api Keys like suggested in the StackOverflow answers?

GMSPlacesClient.provideAPIKey("Your key")
GMSServices.provideAPIKey("Your key")

I read the documents but don’t see how to set this for iOS.

Thanks in advance!

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We got the same problem. When we build standalone for ios and use react-native-maps for Google Maps, app crashes. Here is relevant issue: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-maps/issues/2593.
That is big problem for us, not sure how we can fix this.
@adamjnav could you take a look?

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@syndicate I resolved this issue after debugging with XCode.
My guess is that in newer versions of Expo we need to set the GoogleApiKey in app.json

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/workflow/configuration#__next

It looks like this for me after I got it fixed

"ios": {
      ...
      "config": {
        "googleMapsApiKey":  "MyApiKey123",
      },
      ...
    },
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Thank you very much! Looks like it will help. We had api key in app.json like this:

// app.json
{
  "expo": {...},
  "config": {
    "googleMaps": {
      "apiKey": "..."
    }
  }
}

Would be nice if Expo team mentions this in their SDK 31 upgrade guide.

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