A quick tutorial about showing a latitude-longitude path on Mapbox SDK map. There are multiple ways to show a line on the map using Mapbox SDK but in this one we’re going to use annotations plugin way to do it. …

This piece explains how to calculate the number of tiles within two latitude-longitude pairs on the map for different zoom levels. The way maps on the web and mobile work is that they’ve been divided into thousands of tiles for each zoom levels. When you’re browsing any map, the map-viewer…

This piece talks about how you can setup a scheduled query on BigQuery so that all your data from Firebase Analytics on BigQuery automatically keeps exporting. Linking your project If you are using Firebase Analytics for your app, you should link your Firebase project to Google BigQuery RIGHT NOW! I wish I…

Hello everyone, in this article I will cover how to limit the entire map window to a bounding box using Mapbox or Maplibre SDK on Android. I’ve been working on building offline maps for my app. The way it would work is that the users would download a country or…

I wanted to add the ability to download and store offline maps on my cycling app. One of the options which I discovered was showing MBTiles files with Maplibre or Mapbox. I’m a complete novice in GIS topics and vector tiles and I struggled a lot to figure this out…

Google Photos stopped providing unlimited storage June this year, and even though I am currently paying for Google Drive 100GB tier, I wanted to stop after I heard one too many reports of Google accounts being banned. This is my experience of leaving Google Photos. Exporting the data I had been using the…

Getting the permission to access location in the background is more complicated now compared to the days of Android Pie. How permissions behaves on Android 9 (and below), 10 and 11(and above) for background location are all different. …

Hello, welcome to my first writeup. This is my experience with debugging an OOM error. I hope you learn something from it. Enjoy :) I’ve been working on a map app for cycling from some time. A few months back I’d added a feature to see custom map tiles from…