Add Native Android Maps

[Faeynrir]

Is this already a feature, and I somehow missed it? I can program both in Objective-C and Java, and I was hoping to use LiveCode to expedite the app-making process. However, it seems that not all the native features are unavailable, and if they are available, I have to pay $200-$300 dollars for the externals, on top of the $500 license you have to pay for if you want to sell anything.

I was going to actually purchase a license, but now that I realize that LiveCode doesn't offer something simple like native maps (without paying an extra $200 or so for iOS, anyway), I've changed my mind. LiveCode should add more native features if they don't want to lose customers who are competent with Objective-C and Java.

[jacque]

I'm not sure what a native Android map is, but if you mean Google maps, you can show them in a native web view control.

[Faeynrir]

Right, I don't mean the web view. I mean the 3D-esque maps that applications like OpenTable use.

[Simon]

Open Table?
Like this?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opentab ... 81815?mt=8
Looks just like a web view to me.

Simon

[jacque]

The one with the pins? There's a thread here on the forums somewhere on how to do those. It's a web view, you just need to send the right parameters to Google.

[Faeynrir]

If someone can point me to a true "web view" example, a web view in iOS terms that is, with all its functionality such as vectors and 3D view (I should have been more clear, I meant a web view as in html/javascript), without paying $200 or so dollars for the external, I'll consider it done. Until then, I haven't seen it without the commercial plugin. LiveCode's tutorial on maps uses html/javascript.

[bn]

Hi Faeynrir,

I dont quite get what you want but here is an example of integrating html/javascript into revBrowser done by Dixie

http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... map#p45617

Kind regards
Bernd

[jacque]

I think you're a little confused about the GPL license too. You can sell anything you create with the free open source version, there are no restrictions on that. The only requirement is that you also provide your source code, and that if you use any externals (or other add ons) they also provide their source code. The ones that meet that requirement would by necessity be free as well.

So if you're willing to disclose your code, you can do the entire project at no cost.

[jacque]

I should have been more clear, I meant a web view as in html/javascript)

LiveCode's tutorial on maps uses html/javascript.

I confess to total confusion. Can you link to an example of what you mean? The two statements quoted look the same to me.

[monte]

Just to clarify... mergMK doesn't cost $2-300. It costs $49 which if you value your time at all is far less than the cost of implementing it in Objective C. However, as you know Objective C you could implement your own map view external. LiveCode is open source so if you're reinventing the wheel anyway and feel adamant it should be in the engine then why not add it? Personally I'd much rather the RunRev team focus on stuff that improves the platform as a whole instead of just mobile. BTW I'd love to be able to charge less for my stuff and if I had more support from the LiveCode community I would...