I’m Ian, a software engineer who is passionate about open-source software and open data. By day, I’m building Stadia Maps, and by night I’m usually studying another language or hacking on a side project.
We’re delighted to begin the September newsletter with a heartfelt THANK YOU to Microsoft for their unwavering support as a sponsor of MapLibre in 2024!
MapLibre has completed onboarding of MapLibre React Native, an SDK
that will make MapLibre Native more accessible to mobile developers.
The project is a fork of rnmapbox, a community-maintained React Native library
for building maps with the Mapbox iOS and Android SDKs. The original project supported both Mapbox and MapLibre
backends for some time, but as the MapLibre SDK has developed independently over time, supporting both became onerous.
A clean break enables both projects to bring improvements and bug fixes from the native SDKs to
React Native developers as quickly as possible.