Cordova-plugin-googlemaps: Troubleshoting implementing on ionic cordova's project

[brunovinny]

I'm trying to configure cordova-plugin-googlemaps on my Ionic/Cordova's project, so I followed the instructions contained in Installation on Windows
But when I run my app none map is showed and I just receive those lines on console:

27010-27010/com.awesome.app I/dalvikvm: Could not find method android.content.pm.PackageManager.isInstantApp, referenced from method com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.drd.av.a
27010-27560/com.awesome.app I/dalvikvm: Could not find method android.os.PowerManager.isInteractive, referenced from method com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.drd.aa.a

This is my ionic info:

cli packages: (C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules)

@ionic/cli-utils  : 1.19.0
ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.19.0

global packages:

cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0
Gulp CLI              : not installed globally

local packages:

Cordova Platforms : android 6.4.0
Ionic Framework   : ionic1 1.3.4

System:

Android SDK Tools : 25.2.3
Node              : v6.11.2
npm               : 3.10.10
OS                : Windows 10

Environment Variables:

ANDROID_HOME : C:\android-sdk

Misc:

backend : pro

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cordova information: (run $> cordova plugin list)

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If you use @ionic-native/google-maps, please tell the package.json (only @ionic-native/core and @ionic-native/google-maps are fine mostly)

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[wf9a5m75]

cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0 is not ready yet.

[brunovinny]

Thank you @wf9a5m75 , Could you tell me what is the latest version working?

[wf9a5m75]

Use cordova v6.x for the maps plugin v2.1.1.

But the next version will be released in couple of days. The next version requires the cordova v7.0.

This inconvenience is occurred because of this.
https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2017/12/04/cordova-android-7.0.0.html

[wf9a5m75]

Okay, I tested with the latest cordova version, but it has lots of problems.
So please install like this.

$> git clone -b multiple_maps --single-branch  https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps

$> cd (your project)

$> cordova platform rm android

$> cordova platform add android@6

$> cordova plugin (path to cordova-plugin-googlemaps) --variable API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID=".."

```

[brunovinny]

Thank you again @wf9a5m75, I tried downgrading Android Cordova's platform version as you said and It worked like a charm.

[wf9a5m75]

What?

[brunovinny]

@wf9a5m75 I'm suffering with other issue ... I want to show maps inside Tabs but the plugin is going blank .. I read you comment in this publication #1864 and tried to reinstall cordova-plugin-googlemaps from multiple_maps branch. But now the plugins crashes my application and does not work inside or outside tabs. Besides, my splashscreen has autohide setted false on config.xml that is triggered in my app.js with

    .run(function($ionicPlatform) {
      //if ((device.platform == 'Android') || (device.platform == 'iOS')) {
          $ionicPlatform.ready(function() {
            setTimeout(function() {
                navigator.splashscreen.hide();
                //ionic.Platform.isFullScreen = true;
            }, 300);
         });
      //}
    })

It stopped working too.

[wf9a5m75]

Please share your project files on github.

[wf9a5m75]

ping

[brunovinny]

@wf9a5m75 I'm dubugging my app and I discovered that cordova-plugin-googlemaps has incompatibility issue with ionic-tabbedslidebox's library. I'm still depurating my application to confirm that supposition. When I finish I'll share my project for your consideration.

Ps.: codova-plugin-googlemaps is perfectly working on tabs.

[wf9a5m75]

ping

[wf9a5m75]

Since there is no update, I close this issue. But you can reply anytime.