I have an Android + iOS app using Google Maps SDKs to display a map, and I'm in the process of setting up an OSM tile server.
I'm evaluating the possibility to use vector tiles instead of raster, but replacing Google Maps SDK isn't an option.
So, I'd like to know if it's possible to render a vector tile on Android & iOS to an image? Would Mapbox GL native C++ SDK allow me to do that with .mvt tiles? If not, is there another option?
Best Answer
For Android, we looked into this a few years ago (circa 2014):
https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/OpenTripPlanner-for-Android/issues/356
We ended up just using raster tiles, but we were looking at the below tools to potentially do vector rendering at that time:
From some quick Googling, I found the below library too (and there are likely more):
Note that Mapzen shut down at the beginning of this year, but according to:
https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/
...they recommend the following for vector tiles and basemaps: