react-native-geolocation VS react-native-maps

Then watchPosition from @react-native-community/geolocation is definitely the way to go. Here's a link to the example in their repo. This will constantly update the position state variable, which you can then send to a realtime service which other users are subscribed to and consuming. (Depending on your implementation, could be a websocket or some pub/sub service... I've worked with Pusher Channels before for something similar.)

I like this one https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

For location, you can use the [geolocation library](https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation). If for some reason the user blocks this permission, a neat little trick is to call this API, [https://ipapi.co/json/\]([https://ipapi.co/json/](https://ipapi.co/json/)). They will get the users Longitude and Latitude based on the requesting IP. Of course, that will be masked if they have a VPN running. But it is a second attempt at getting a location.

You can just use react-native-geolocation and it's watchPosition method to just listen to location changes and respond to that accordingly. If it comes within 10-15-20-50 meters from the college you can count that as arrival.

Here's some APIs to look into, maybe you could do searches based on libraries https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

@react-native-community/geolocation

We are using the code below. And we use https://github.com/react-native-maps/react-native-maps for Maps

Now for the fun part - understanding the relevant MapView props! When reading the full MapView documentation you can see the MANY props but we will only need the following:

Are you using react-native-maps own polygons? There is a “polygon creator” example on their github: https://github.com/react-native-maps/react-native-maps/blob/master/example/src/examples/PolygonCreator.tsx

And their docsdont seem to include any draw/edit functions.

Plus google isn’t going to charge you for the google maps mobile sdk. Discussed here https://github.com/react-native-maps/react-native-maps/discussions/4278

react-native-maps offers map components for your Android or iOS application. The kit offers different types of component API such as MapView, Marker, Callout, Polygon, Polyline, Circle, and Overlay.

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react-native-maps is the best option for handling location and maps in react native. you can use openstreet, google maps, apple maps, or any other tile overlay. also, it provides some good examples in its repository which covers most of the use cases.