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* [ios, macos] Replaced custom style layer API with MGLOpenGLStyleLayer Replaced the custom style layer API on MGLMapView with an equally unsupported MGLOpenGLStyleLayer API that nonetheless is consistent with the broader runtime styling API and is compatible with macOS. Fixed an unrecognized selector crash when wrapping a layer of unrecognized type coming from mbgl. * [macos] Added lime green layer demo to macosapp Reprised the demo removed from iosapp in #5091. * [ios, macos] Rationalized MGLOpenGLStyleLayer API MGLStyle now strongly references any MGLOpenGLStyleLayer object that’s added to it, in order to prevent pointers from going stale and make it easy for layer drawing code to get more information about the map view. Replaced the MGLOpenGLStyleLayer callback blocks with overridable instance methods. Added internal documentation for each method. Subclassed MGLOpenGLStyleLayer as LimeGreenStyleLayer inside macosapp. Consolidated -addToMapView: into -addToMapView:belowLayer: to ensure that MGLRedundantLayerException gets raised even if the layer is being inserted rather than added to the bottom of the stack. * [core] Clarified that rendering happens on the main thread * [ios, macos] Fixed removing and re-adding MGLOpenGLStyleLayer Don’t allow index-based layer removal to circumvent -removeFromMapView:, which MGLOpenGLStyleLayer relies on to synchronize the style’s array of MGLOpenGLStyleLayers. When obtaining an MGLOpenGLStyleLayer, get the instance already added to the style instead of creating a new one to wrap the underlying CustomLayer.
Mapbox GL Native
A library for embedding interactive, customizable vector maps into native applications on multiple platforms. It takes stylesheets that conform to the Mapbox Style Specification, applies them to vector tiles that conform to the Mapbox Vector Tile Specification, and renders them using OpenGL. Mapbox GL JS is the WebGL-based counterpart, designed for use on the Web.
The Mapbox GL ecosystem
This repository hosts the cross-platform Mapbox GL Native library, plus convenient SDKs for several platforms. The cross-platform library comes with a GLFW-based demo application for Ubuntu Linux and macOS. The SDKs target the usual languages on their respective platforms:
| SDK | Languages | Build status |
|---|---|---|
| Mapbox GL Native | C++14 |   |
| Mapbox Android SDK | Java |  |
| Mapbox iOS SDK | Objective-C or Swift |  |
| Mapbox macOS SDK | Objective-C, Swift, or AppleScript |  |
| node-mapbox-gl-native | Node.js |  |
| Mapbox Qt SDK | C++03 |  |
Additional Mapbox GL Native–based libraries for hybrid applications are developed outside of this repository:
| Toolkit | Android | iOS | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|
| React Native (npm) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Apache Cordova (npm) | ✅ | ✅ | Telerik |
| NativeScript (npm) | ✅ | ✅ | Telerik |
| Xamarin | ✅ | ✅ | Xamarin |
If your platform or hybrid application framework isn’t listed here, consider embedding Mapbox GL JS using the standard Web capabilities on your platform.