mapbox / mapbox/mapbox-plugins-android

InfoWindow and anchor support for MarkerViews.

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feature markerview-plugin
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Description

I've been playing with the MarkerView plugin so we can experiment with Lottie animations on our markers. While messing with em i've noticed that the plugin is in very early stages and doesn't have much support for anything.

I wasn't able to set an anchor on the view I supplied. So whenever it was added to the map the top left corner of the view was the lat/lng while the rest of the view was laid out below and to the right. I've made my own copies of the 2 classes in the plugin to adjust this.

The view also didn't seem to update its location frequently enough, zooming and panning the map would leave it in the same spot until the map was done rendering. I was able to get around this in my own version of the 2 classes as well.

I wasn't able to find a good way to hook the InfoWindow support the mapbox map has using marker views, is this something that will be added to this plugin? The same question goes for the other things i've had to adjust. Or would it be smarter to try and move to using symbol layers than waiting for this plugin to advance?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the MarkerView plugin and the two classes mentioned in the issue, then compare its current behavior with the map's symbol-layer and InfoWindow support. Confirm how anchor positioning and update timing work during panning and zooming. Done would require an agreed scope for anchor, frequent location updates, and InfoWindow support.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, java
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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