I'm integrating gluon maps in my application. I'm able to find location of two different users on the map. However, what I need is a direction/navigation - feature like google map in gluon mobile. Is there any to obtain it?
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I plan to use here api to reduce my costs compared to google maps.
Is there a way to use the here map in Xamarin forms?
I have already designed the search combo suggestion to find places. Now I would like to show the places on the here map.
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You can use android studio. The Xamarin bindings still need to be created in the SDK, as the are not on our roadmap yet.
But you can either create the bindings yourself.
Say I build a super mobile friendly web application that I want in the Play Store for Android users to be able to download.
Could I use Xamarin to:
Wrap the entire mobile app as a single WebView
Register for mobile push notifications
Essentially shortlining an MVP of an android app by using an existing web app? If so, is there any well-known process or documentation that demonstrates this?
Probably the best approach for you would be using Xamarin Forms with one or more pages containing only web views.
I don't love Xamarin Forms because usually for me Xamarin Android+iOS gives a better result in similar time, but your app would be so simple that doesn't make sense to do it with Xamarin Android.
Make sure that your web app will show only what makes sense to be shown in your app, otherwise you risk to see double header/footer, useless buttons... but if the website is yours adding a few parameters to change a bit the UI won't be a problem I guess.
Have a look at this example:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/WorkingWithWebview
Another approach is the use of Razor to build your pages in html directly inside your app, but if I understood well it's not what you need:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/advanced/razor_html_templates/
Although it is technically possible to do this as the previous answer has suggested. I would recommended firstly reviewing, the relevant stores guidelines on submissions. Apple for example will not allow a submission to their store of any application that simply mirrors the functionality of a website. I suspect Google's would likely be the same.
However that said, to answer your question, Xamarin.Forms would be appropriate for a simple application like the one you are suggesting. Or if you prefer to build to a specific OS, then in iOS with Xamarin you would use the Safari View Controller that was added in it's xcode 8.1 release. Android uses something similar as does windows.
EDIT:
You can use the Web View control in Xamarins Andorid native PCL project to encapsulate your mobile friendly website within an application here is the documentation:
Xamarin Android Developer link to Android Web View
As for push notifications, yes this is perfectly possible using Xamarin.Android. and varies on implementation depending on what you want to use as the back end to handle them, I.E. Azure's notification hub etc.
I am using titanium SDK 5.0.0.GA.I have lot of map annonation on mapview.I want to load all annonation on mapview and display it as per map zoom level.I know there is one way for doing that is cluster map but I am not sure how to achieve this in android using titanium framework.
Look at Google map clustering in android
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There is a JavaScript-based library called Ti.MarkerManager to hide pins in certain zoom-levels. Unfortunately, at least iOS does not offer Clustering in their native MKMapView, yet. The Android-part could be implemented as a new feature in Ti.Map Android.
As in title. Is it possible to implement maps other than Google Maps or Mapbox (they are expensive)? I would aim into Open Street Maps or other free solution as I would like to use it in my commercial app.
You should be able to use open street maps fine in a NativeScript application.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS & https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
You would just need to call into the OSM maps API. You can check out several blogs from nsbloggers.com as several bloggers have written posts on how to take a native component and make it into a NativeScript plugin.
When the user opens my Windows Phone app, he should be shown his current position - either using Google maps or Bing maps.
I tried to integrate Bing maps in my app, but the question is:
How do I locate the exact or nearby location of the user?
The map is just a control, on which you can show your position if you got it from the GeoCoordinateWatcher. You can look for good examples (e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dragoman/archive/2010/09/21/wp7-code-using-the-geolocation-api.aspx ) on the web but if you need I can help to implement it too.