# maplibre-gl-native

**Repository Path**: mirrors_lyft/maplibre-gl-native

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: maplibre-gl-native
- **Description**: The open-source fork of Mapbox GL Native: Code & SDK for iOS, Android and other platforms
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSL-1.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-01-23
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-24

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# MapLibre GL Native - Open-Source Mapbox GL Native

SDK for iOS, Android and other platforms

MapLibre GL Native is a community led fork derived from [mapbox-gl-native](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native) prior to their switch to a non-OSS license. The fork also includes Maps SDK for iOS and MacOS (forked from [mapbox-gl-native-ios](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native-ios)) and Android SDK (forked from [mapbox-gl-native-android](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native-android)). These platform-specific SDKs were merged under platform directory and they reference mapbox-gl-native directly, not as a submodule.

Beside merging in platform specific SDKs, the following changes were made compared to original mapbox projects:

* The code was upgraded so that it can be built using latest clang compiler / Xcode 12.
* CI/CD was migrated from CircleCI to GitHub Actions. 
* Along with GitHub releases, binaries are distributed as follows:
    * The iOS binaries distribution was upgraded from fat packages to Swift package containing XCFramework.
    * The Android binaries are distributed to GitHub maven package repository.

> The mapbox-gl-native was forked from [d60fd30 - mgbl 1.6.0](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/tree/d60fd302b1f6563e7d16952f8855122fdcc85f73), mapbox-gl-native-ios from [a139216](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native-ios/commit/a139216) and mapbox-gl-native-android from [4c12fb2](https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native-android/commit/4c12fb2c)
## Build Status

| SDK                                                           | Build   | Build status                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Maps SDK for iOS](platform/ios/) | CI      | [![GitHub Action build status](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/ios-ci/badge.svg)](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/ios-ci)                   |
| [Maps SDK for iOS](platform/ios/) | Release | [![GitHub Action build status](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/ios-release/badge.svg)](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/ios-release)         |
| [Maps SDK for Android](platform/android/)      | CI      | [![GitHub Action build status](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/android-ci/badge.svg)](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/android-ci)           |
| [Maps SDK for Android](platform/android/)     | Release | [![GitHub Action build status](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/android-release/badge.svg)](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/workflows/android-release) |


## Sponsors

We thank everyone who supported us financially in the past and special thanks to the people and organizations who support us with recurring dontations:  

[MIERUNE Inc.](https://www.mierune.co.jp/?lang=en) [@MIERUNE](https://github.com/MIERUNE), [@jawg](https://github.com/jawg), [@nekoyasan](https://github.com/nekoyasan), [@atierian](https://github.com/atierian), [@photoprism](https://github.com/photoprism), [@kaplanlior](https://github.com/kaplanlior), [@francois2metz](https://github.com/francois2metz), [@Schneider-Geo](https://github.com/Schneider-Geo), [@serghov](https://github.com/serghov), [@ambientlight](https://github.com/ambientlight), [@joschi77](https://github.com/joschi77), [@geoffhill](https://github.com/geoffhill), [@jasongode](https://github.com/jasongode)

## Documentation

The Android API documentation is available at https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-native/android/api/

The iOS API documentation is available at https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-native/ios/api/

## Installation

### Android

1. Add bintray maven repositories to your build.gradle at project level so that you can access MapLibre packages for Android:

    ```gradle
        allprojects {
            repositories {
                ...
                mavenCentral()                
            }
        }
    ```

   > Note: [Bintray was turn off May 1st, 2021](https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/) so we migrated all packages to maven central.

2. Add the library as a dependency into your module build.gradle

    ```gradle
        dependencies {
            ...
            implementation 'org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk:<version>'
            ...
        }
    ```

3. Sync gradle and rebuild your app

*Note: MapLibre by default ships with the proprietary Google Play Location Services. If you want to avoid pulling proprietary dependencies into your project, you can exclude Google Play Location Services as follows:*
```gradle
    implementation ('org.maplibre.gl:android-sdk:<version>') {
        exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
    }
```

### iOS

1. To add a package dependency to your Xcode project, select File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency and enter its repository URL. You can also navigate to your target’s General pane, and in the “Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content” section, click the + button, select Add Other, and choose Add Package Dependency.

2. Either add MapLibre GitHub distribution URL (https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native-distribution) or search for `maplibre-gl-native` package.

3. Choose "next". Xcode should clone the distribution repository and download the binaries.

## Alternative installation

You can also download pre-build from releases in this repository.

## How to create your own build

### Source code checkout

```bash
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native.git
```

## Build

MapLibre uses tags for its Android & iOS releases based on [SemVer](https://semver.org) versioning.  This is useful for checking out a particular released version for feature enhancments or debugging.

You can list available tags by issuing the command `git tag`, then use the result

```bash
# 1. Obtain a list of tags, which matches to release versions
git tag

# 2.  Set a convenience variable with the desired TAG
# TAG=android-v9.4.2
# TAG=android-v9.5.2
TAG=ios-v5.12.0
# TAG=ios-v5.12.0-pre.1

# 3.  Check out a particular TAG
git checkout tags/$TAG -b $TAG

# 4. build, debug or enhance features based on the tag
# clean, if you need to troubleshoot build dependencies by using `make clean`
```

### Android

---

<details open><summary>macOS Build Environment:  Android Studio + NDK</summary>
<ul>
<li>Environment:  Android Studio + NDK<ul>
<li><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, &quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;, monospace;">JAVA_HOME=/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/Contents/Home</code></li>
<li><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, &quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;, monospace;">ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=~/Library/Android/sdk</code></li>
<li><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, &quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;, monospace;">~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager --install ndk;major.minor.build</code></li>
</ul>
</details>


```bash
cd platform/android
BUILDTYPE=Debug make apackage
#BUILDTYPE=Release make apackage
```

Binaries are produced in `platform/android/MapboxGLAndroidSDK/build/outputs/aar/MapboxGLAndroidSDK-<BUILDTYPE>.aar`
Please refer to [Mapbox Maps SDK for Android](platform/android/) for detailed instructions.

### iOS

You can run automated test on a Simulator or Device by changing to the Scheme `iosapp` and choosing `Product` > `Test` (or use `⌘-U`).  Use `⌘-9` to navigate to `Reports` to see results and browse through screenshots.  This method of testing should work well with CI tools such as GitHub Actions, Xcode Server Bots, & AWS Device Farm.

```bash
cd platform/ios

# make and open the Xcode workspace
make iproj

# make Xcode workspace, but run in headless mode
make iproj CI=1

# Make Frameworks
make xcframework BUILDTYPE=Release

# test
make ios-test

# UITests
#   You can review uitest results:  $(IOS_OUTPUT_PATH)/Logs/Test
 make ios-uitest
```

The packaging script will produce a `Mapbox.xcframework` in the  `platform/ios/build/ios/pkg/dynamic` folder.
Please refer to [Mapbox Maps SDK for iOS](platform/ios/platform/ios/) for detailed instructions.


#### MacOS

```bash
cd platform/ios
make xpackage
```

This produces a `Mapbox.framework` in the `platform/ios/build/macos/pkg/` folder.
Please refer to [Mapbox Maps SDK for macos](platform/ios/platform/macos/) for detailed instructions.

#### Linux

See [the Linux platform build section](platform/linux/) for instructions.