What are the differences between the MapLibre iOS SDK and the Mapbox iOS SDK?

[PeterKaminski09]

Hi team,

I'm not too savvy on Swift Package Manager or CocoaPods, but I was wondering if someone could shed light on the difference between installing the Mapbox dependency via SPM from https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native-distribution as opposed to installing v5.9 straight from the Mapbox CocoaPods repo

From what I can tell, the MapLibre library has the same Podspec file that is also pointing to the same underlying source (https://mapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/mapbox-gl-native/ios/builds/mapbox-ios-sdk-5.9.0-dynamic.zip)

A few general questions:

• Is there any difference in the underlying source code between MapLibre and Mapbox when it comes to the iOS dependency?
• Are the licenses the same?
• If there is a difference between the two, is it possible to get MapLibre as a CocoaPod instead of via SPM?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[rudolfkopriva]

Hi,

It is possible, CocoaPods support XCFramework distribution and MapLibre can be distributed with Cocoapods.
You would have to do a few modifications in the Podspec file:

Change name and version
Change source url to maplibre zip that contains the xcframework: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/releases/download/ios-v5.11.0/Mapbox-5.11.0.zip
Change m.vendored_frameworks from 'dynamic/Mapbox.framework' to 'Mapbox.xcframework'

You can also remove MapboxMobileEvents dependency, because it is not used in MapLibre.

You can test it first with private Spec repository.

[PeterKaminski09]

Okay cool, thank you!

Do you happen to know the answer to this question?

Is there any difference in the underlying source code between MapLibre and Mapbox when it comes to the iOS dependency?

[rudolfkopriva]

You can migrate from Mapbox 5.9.0 to MapLibre 5.11.0 without doing many changes in your app. All namespaces and class names are the same in both libs.