Mappls Tracking Widget React Native

Getting started

Easy To Integrate Routing APIs & Map SDKs Powered with India's most comprehensive and robust mapping functionalities. Now Available for Srilanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

1. Copy and paste the JWT API key or generated Auth token from your API keys available in the Dashboard in the sample code for interactive map development.
2. The sample code is provided to help you understand the very basic functionality of MapmyIndia APIs.

Document Version History

| Version | Last Updated | Author |Remarks | ------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |-------------- | | 1.0.0 | 21 Aug 2025 | MapmyIndia API Team (MA) | Initial Commit

Introduction

This advanced tracking plugin, offered by Mappls plugins for react native, allows one to track the path traveled with smooth animation along the route. The smooth animation by plugin directly depend upon the frequency of the provided information on the current location, time, and speed of the vehicle being tracked to the plugin. More the Merrier!

API Usage

Your Mappls Maps SDK usage needs a set of license keys (get them here) and is governed by the API terms and conditions. As part of the terms and conditions, you cannot remove or hide the Mappls logo and copyright information in your project.

The allowed SDK hits are described on the user dashboard page. Note that your usage is shared between platforms, so the API hits you make from a web application, Android app or an iOS app all add up to your allowed daily limit.

Prerequisite

1. Sign Up and Log In
   • Go to the Mappls Dashboard and sign up or log in.
2. Create Separate Apps for Android & iOS
   • Create two separate apps in the Mappls Dashboard:
     • One for React Native Android
     • One for React Native iOS
3. Install Dependencies
   • Install all required dependencies for Mappls SDK integration into your React Native project.
4. Android Configuration
   • Download configuration files for your Android app (associated with the Package Name and Signing Certificate SHA-256).
   • Add the following configuration files to the app-level root directory of your Android project:

     <appId>.a.olf  
     <appId>.a.conf

5. iOS Configuration
   • To initialize and authenticate Mappls SDK on iOS, include the following configuration files in your project bundle:

     <appId>.i.olf  
     <appId>.i.conf

   • In your ios/Podfile, add the following line inside the post_install block:

     $MAPPLS_MAPS.post_install(installer)
     $MAPPLS_TRACKING_WIDGET.post_install(installer)

Getting Started

• Install Mappls Tracking Widget

`npm i mappls-tracking-react-native`

• Install peerDependencies

`npm i mappls-map-react-native`

• If using React-native<0.60

` react-native link mappls-tracking-react-native`

Installation

Android

• Add followling line in android/build.gradle file:-

allprojects {
   repositories {
            mavenLocal()
            maven {
// All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
           url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
            }
           maven {
 // Android JSC is installed from npm
    url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
          }

  
+       maven { url 'https://maven.mappls.com/repository/mappls/'}

           google()
           jcenter()
           maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }

         }

}

• Add followling line in android/app/build.gradle file:-

defaultConfig {

applicationId "com.example"

minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion

targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion

versionCode 1

versionName "1.0"

+ multiDexEnabled true

}
+ dataBinding {
+    enabled true
+   }

ios

• run pod install from ios folder

Usage

Import

import MapplsTracking from "mappls-tracking-react-native";
import  MapplsGL  from  'mappls-map-react-native';

Open MapplsTrackingWidget

        <MapplsTracking.MapplsTrackingWidget
          ref={trackingWidgetRef}
          originPoint='77.26890561043258,28.550947419414012'
          destinationPoint='77.25988209737588,28.55373960502866'
          speedInMillis={3000}
          resource='route_eta'
          profile='driving'
          routeChangeBuffer={50}
          trackingIcon={carIcon}
          latentViz='jump'
          polylineRefresh={false}
          cameraZoomLevel={14}
          routePolylineStyle={layerStyle.routePolylineStyle}
          destinationIconStyle={layerStyle.destinationIconStyle}
          dashRoutePolylineStyle={layerStyle.dashRoutePolylineStyle}
          OriginIconStyle={layerStyle.OriginOutletIconStyle}
          destinationRouteConnectorStyle={layerStyle.connectorPolylineStyle}
          enableDestinationRouteConnector={true}
          fitBoundsPadding={80}
          fitBoundsDuration={1000}
          latentVizRadius={100}
          trackingSegmentCompleteCallback={(event:any) => {
          }}
           trackingEventCallback={(eventName:any,eventValue:any) =>{
          }}
        />

Mandatory Request Properties

• originPoint : route start location . For eg - { geoposition: "28.63124010064198,77.46734619140625" }
• destinationPoint : route end location . For eg - { geoposition: "28.631541442089226,77.37808227539064" }
• routePolylineStyle : To set a style for route draw.

    const layerStyle = {
        routePolylineStyle: {
        lineColor: '#314ccd',
        lineWidth: 6,
        lineOpacity: 0.75,
        lineCap: 'round',
        lineJoin: 'round',
    } as StyleProp<SymbolLayerStyle>,
    }

• destinationIconStyle : To set a style for destination icon set.

  const layerStyle = {
    destinationIconStyle: {
    iconImage: marker,
    iconAllowOverlap: true,
    iconAnchor: 'bottom',
    iconSize: 0.2,

  } as StyleProp<SymbolLayerStyle>,
}

• dashRoutePolylineStyle : To set a style for an initial route showcase.

  const layerStyle = {
        dashRoutePolylineStyle: {
        lineColor: '#314ccd',  // Set polyline color
        lineWidth: 4,  // Set polyline width
        lineOpacity: 0.75,  // Set polyline opacity
        lineCap: 'round',
        lineJoin: 'round',
        lineDasharray: [2, 4],  // Dash pattern: [Dash length, Gap length]
        } as StyleProp<SymbolLayerStyle>
    }

• OriginIconStyle : To set a style for start point showcase

    const layerStyle = {
        OriginIconStyle: {
        iconImage: marker,
        iconAllowOverlap: true,
        iconAnchor: 'bottom',
        iconSize: 0.2,

    } as StyleProp<SymbolLayerStyle>,
  }

• destinationRouteConnectorStyle : To set a style for draw a connector line from the last point of a route on the road to the actual input destination coordinate.

const layerStyle = {
destinationRouteConnectorStyle: {
 lineColor: '#787878',
 lineWidth: 4,
 lineOpacity: 0.75,
 lineCap: 'round',
 lineJoin: 'round',
 lineDasharray: [2, 4],
} as StyleProp<SymbolLayerStyle>,
}

Optional Parameters

1. speedInMillis(number): To set the animation speed in milliseconds.

2. resource(string): To set the route resource. Default to "route_eta".

3. profile(string): To set the profile for the route. Default to "driving".

4. trackingIcon(string): To set the tracking icon (like a RiderIcon) in the north-up direction on a map.

5. trackingIconSize(number): To set the tracking icon size.

6. routeChangeBuffer(number): The distance defined for call reroute for the provided current location.

7. polylineRefresh(boolean): To remove the route at the same time as the rider progresses along the route.

8. latentViz(string): To set the string value for smooth visualization when rider suddenly jumps off-route. Incurs an additional routing call.// [Acceptable values for this is : jump,fly & route]

9. latentVizRadius(number):

10. cameraZoomLevel(number): To set the camera zoom level.

11. fitBoundsPadding (number): To set the padding for the fitbound.// default 80

12. fitBoundsDuration(number): To set the duration for the fitbound.// default 1000 millis

13. enableDestinationRouteConnector (boolean): To set boolean value for hide/show connector line from the last route point on road to actual input destination coordinate // default false

14. trackingSegmentCompleteCallback(trackingData: TrackingData) : retrieve the remaining distance, you can access the relevant data within the trackingData object that the callback provides. For example...

    trackingSegmentCompleteCallback={(event:any) => {
                console.log("remainingDistance", JSON.stringify(event))
              }}

15. enableSim (boolean): enable or disable rider simulation when rider location is inconsistent.

16. maxSimDis (number): maximum distance till which simulation will be active after the last location injected into the widget.

17. simSpeed (number): This value is speed in metres/sec at which the rider simulation will be started at. The ride simulation will be slowed at a defined rate below this speed after every few metres to enable a very smooth and slow animation till the time a fresh active location is injected tot the widget or max simulation distance is reached.

18. lastRiderLocation(number[array]): This parameter is used to pass the last known location (long,lat) coordinates of the rider.

19. orderId (string): This parameter is used to add some unique id related to tracking

20. trackingEventCallback (eventName:string,eventValue:string) : attributes to be returned for each event in real-time on occurrence of each event.

    • aerialDistance : displacement from last location to new location
    • roadDistance : from last location to new location (if and only if new location is within routeChangeBuffer distance of route polyline)
    • latentViz : A boolean flag indicating if crow-fly/jump happened from old location to new location. When crowFly is false, it indicates that the new location is route adherent.
    • routeRecompute : A flag in string that indicates success/failure of route-recompute when tracking SDK internally calculates new route. This will happen when crowFly is true, and new location's distance from route polyline is greater than buffer distance.

     trackingEventCallback={(eventName:any,eventValue:any) =>{
            console.log("trackingEventCallback",eventName + ":::::::" + eventValue)
          }}

Note : Event names & its important values:

• updateWithinBuffer :

{
    "activity_name": "updateWithinBuffer",
    //& other key-val pairs
    },
    "url": {
      "roadDistanceInMeter": 128.9532915267954,
      "aerial": 128.86231315761427
    }
  }

• updateOutsideBuffer :

  {
   "activity_name": "updateOutsideBuffer",
   // & other key-val pairs
   },
   "url": {
     "latentViz": "jump",
     "aerialDistance": 288.5067313683827,
     "routeRecompute": "Route calculated successfully"
   }
  }

Method calls :-

• For Start Tracking

  const newSourcePoint:MapplsTracking.MapplsTrackingWidget.TrackingRequestData = {
        currentLocation: [77.26757150555511, 28.551569415823124]
        }
    trackingWidgetRef.current.startTracking(newSourcePoint); 

• For Removing Curved Line

 if (trackingWidgetRef.current) {
    trackingWidgetRef.current.removeCurveLine(true);
 }

• For Hide/Show Polyline

 if (trackingWidgetRef.current) {
   trackingWidgetRef.current.isVisibleRoutePolyline(true);
 }

• For Enable/Disable DestinationConnectorLine

 if (trackingWidgetRef.current) {
  trackingWidgetRef.current.enableDestinationConnectorLine(true)
 }

• For Enable/Disable FitBound Route

 if (trackingWidgetRef.current) {
    trackingWidgetRef.current.enableFitBounds(true);
 }

• For Enable/Disable Logo Click

 <MapplsGL.MapView style={{ flex: 1 }}
        ref={mapRef}
        logoClickEnabled={false}        // disable logo click
        renderToHardwareTextureAndroid={true}
        mapplsStyle="sublime_grey_tracking"
        onMapError={error => console.log(error)}/>

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