MetroMaps 1.6.1 (bug fixes mostly)

🚀 What's New in Version 1.6.1

⚡ Performance & Fluidity

• Jitter-Free Pivot & Tab Swiping: Completely eliminated stuttering in both the Pivot Screen and Favorites Sheet during page swipes by refactoring header width tracking to prevent mid-animation re-renders.
• Photo Pre-fetching: Place photo thumbnails now preload in the background when opening a location, allowing the Photos tab to render instantly.
• Smoother List Performance: Optimized favorites and recent search lists with view clipping and render batching for lag-free scrolling.

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🎨 Metro UI & Experience

• Windows Phone 3D Splash Screen: Added an authentic Metro-styled launch sequence featuring a 3D card flip-in animation and signature rolling progress dots.
• Refined App Bar Physics: Fixed touch cancellation (onTouchCancel) so circle action buttons smoothly spring back to their resting position if gestures are interrupted or dragged away.
• Micro-Interactions in Favorites: Added animated 3D tilt and spring responses to the edit and star action icons in favorites rows.

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🗺️ Maps & Navigation

• Clean Navigation Mode: Starting active driving/walking navigation now automatically clears clutter and all search result markers, leaving only your active route and destination.
• Native Destination Marker: Restored the clean default red pin marker for single destination locations while retaining custom Metro pins for search results.

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MetroMaps V1.6.0

🚇 MetroMaps v1.6.0 — Transit Directions, Metro Turnstile Animations & Map Redesign

MetroMaps v1.6.0! This update introduces full public transit routing support, authentic Windows Phone / Metro 3D UI turnstile animations, redesigned controls, custom map themes, and major performance optimizations.

✨ What's New

🚆 Public Transit Routing & Maneuvers

• Transit Mode Navigation: View comprehensive transit itineraries with line names, vehicle icons, transit colors, scheduled departure/arrival times, and transfer guidance.
• Detailed Step-by-Step Maneuvers: Clean breakdown of transit legs, walking connections, and stop lists directly in the navigation sheet.

🎨 Metro UI Motion & Controls

• 3D Turnstile Page Transitions: Re-engineered the classic Metro 3D swing turnstile entrance & exit transitions for PivotScreen (left-swinging pivot, snappier 300ms/250ms duration).
• Animated Application Bar: Added fluid expand/collapse drawer animations and icon reveals in AppBar.
• Modernized MetroButton & Sliders: Rebuilt buttons and sliders for responsive tactile feedback and authentic Metro typography.

🗺️ Map Styles & Native Pins

• Custom Vector Map Themes: Added curated Light and Dark map presets tailored to the Metro aesthetic.
• Optimized Native Markers: Migrated to native MapView pins, replacing custom projection overlays to ensure 60fps pan/zoom performance and pin alignment.

MetroMaps V1.5.0

Metro-Maps v1.5.0 is here! 🎉

We've got a fresh update for you with some cool new features, a few visual polish ups, and a whole lot of new languages. Here’s what’s dropping in version 1.5.0:

• 🌞 Hello, Light Mode!
  Dark mode is great, but sometimes you just need things a little brighter. You can now toggle on our brand-new Light Mode whenever you want.
• 🚀 A Brand New Setup Screen
  We completely overhauled the onboarding process. The new setup screen makes getting started way smoother and faster so you can jump right in.
• 🌎 We’re Going Global
  Metro-Maps just learned some new languages! You can now use the app fully translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
• ✨ UI Tweaks & Polish
  We sprinkled in a few minor UI changes and visual tweaks throughout the app to keep everything looking sharp and feeling responsive.

MetroMaps v1.4.0

Release Notes - MetroMaps v1.4.0

NEW SETUP PLEASE READ WHEN OPENING THE APP.

🚀 New Features

Active Navigation & Voice Guidance

• Traffic & Routing Engine: Added a new routing system, traffic-based route polylines, off-road guidance, and route snapping.

Search Experience

• Global & Smart Search: Added the ability to globally search for major locations while implementing a smart radius filter that intelligently limits local queries to a 50-mile radius.
• Extended Results: Implemented pagination to support loading up to 60 category search results, complete with compliant delays for Google Places API limits.

✨ Enhancements

Map Experience

• Camera Intelligence: Improved navigation camera settings by utilizing Google Directions bounds for precise route centering and implementing a heading-locked camera.
• High-Fidelity Rendering: Achieved instant polyline updates using useMemo for a buttery-smooth map experience. Enabled 3D buildings and indoor maps for tilted camera views.
• Location Tracking: Enhanced user location tracking accuracy by upgrading to watchPositionAsync.

UI & Visual Polish

• Typography & Scaling: Enforced uniform Open Sans typography across the app and added responsive scaling to ensure the UI looks perfect on screens of all sizes.

🛠 Fixes & Stability

Performance & Reliability

• Crash Resolutions: Resolved a severe Android Out-Of-Memory (OOM) crash and fixed a fatal error caused when the Google Directions API returned ZERO_RESULTS.
• Speed Limits: Improved the accuracy of speed limits displayed during active navigation.
• Permissions Handling: The app now gracefully stops prompting for location permissions if Location Services are explicitly disabled on the device.

MetroMapsV1.3

Release Notes - MetroMaps v1.3.0

🚀 New Features

Directions & Navigation

• Refined Entry Screen: Updated the "Directions" setup screen to match the reference design.
  • Added a functional "Start Navigation" button.
  • Improved "From" and "To" field layout and interactivity.
  • Removed "Public Transit" option to focus on initial release capabilities.

Feedback

• In-App Feedback: Added a functional feedback button in the AppBar menu that opens the user's email client with a pre-filled template.

App Bar & Menus

• Redesigned App Bar: Implemented a new slide-up expansion model with centered icons and a refined layout.
• Settings Menu: Introduced a dedicated Settings sheet, featuring:
  • Unit selection (Metric/Imperial/System) via dropdown.
  • Streamlined options (removed sync/favorites).
• About Page: Added a dedicated About page accessible from the menu.

✨ Enhancements

Map Experience

• Location Persistence: The app now remembers your last viewed map region. On startup, it restores this location instead of resetting to a default view.
• Search UI: "Quick Search" category buttons now automatically hide when you start typing a query to reduce clutter.

MetroMaps V1.2.1

MetroMaps 1.2.1 Release Notes

Version 1.2.1 focuses on performance, animation fluidity, and bringing the UX closer to a more accurate Windows Phone aesthetic.

🎞️ Fluid Motion & Animations

• Standardized Easing: Harmonized all major screen transitions (Pivot, Search, Favorites) using a 400ms Cubic Ease Out curve for a more consistent, high-end feel.
• Symmetric Pivot Transitions: Refined PivotScreen to enter and exit with matching speeds.
• Jitter Elimination:
  • Moved BottomSheet animations to run directly on the UI Thread, bypassing JS bridge delays.
  • Refactored Pivot headers to use timing-based transitions, removing stutter during rapid swipes.
• Scroll Optimization: Added offscreenPageLimit to tabbed views to pre-render adjacent content for stutter-free navigation.

🎨 Metro Design & UX

• Functional MPH Icon: The speed indicator in active navigation is now fully functional.
• One-Tap Results: Optimized the search flow so results now open with a single click.
• Full Search Results: Pressing "Enter" on a search now opens the full results screen, showing all matches at once.
• Screen-Edge Clipping: Adjusted the Favorites header so text clips at the screen boundary rather than internal containers, recreating the authentic "oversized header" look.
• Discrete Transitions: Switched pivot text color logic to discrete states, improving rendering performance across all devices.
• Custom MetroSwitch: Replaced generic checkboxes in the Options Menu with custom Metro Style switch based on the metro css guidelines.
• Hardware Integration: Improved the OptionsMenu to support native Android hardware back buttons and swipe-to-close gestures.

🛠️ Performance & Stability

• Header Memoization: Optimized the FavoritesSheet to prevent unnecessary re-renders during expansion/collapse.
• Worklet Safety: Enhanced BottomSheet gesture handlers using shared values for state tracking to keep the interface responsive.
• API Resilience: Improved error handling and data mapping for location services to ensure the UI stays updated even with partial data.

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MetroMaps V1.2

Release Notes

• Ui Overhall and My Places Screen:

• **Moved the options button to a button off the app bar

• **Added a favorites button to the app bar that takes you to a new area called my places.

• **My Places screen allows you to view and edit favorited places and there names and see your recent places

• Active Navigation UI Overhaul:

  • Implemented new Nokia Maps-inspired design with Dark Navy Blue top bar.
  • Redesigned bottom dashboard with column layout: Speed, Limit, Distance, Time.
  • Added gesture-based expandable bottom sheet (Peek 100px -> Expanded 180px).
  • Added 'End Navigation' button that appears dynamically on list expansion.
  • Implemented dynamic re-center button positioning (animates with sheet).
  • Added 5mph speed threshold for route recalculation to prevent jitter.

• Navigation Logic:

  • Instant routing when clicking a Favorite item (bypasses pivot screen).
  • Fixed Recents scrolling issues with proper content padding.
  • Optimized peek heights for various sheets (Navigation, Favorites, Results).

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2

MetroMaps V1.1.1

MetroMaps V1.1.1 Mini Release

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🆕 What's New

Bug Fixes and Changes

• Major Bug fixes For Navigation Bugs and Location Tracking Accuracy
• Also Shortened the Search Radius when searching from your location to make results more relevant.

MetroMaps v1.1

MetroMaps V1.1 Navigation Overhaul

Release Date: January 16, 2026

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🆕 What's New

Navigation Experience

• Voice Navigation: Turn-by-turn voice guidance using expo-speech announces upcoming maneuvers.
• Metro-Style Icons: Crisp vector icons for all maneuvers (turns, U-turns, ramps, merges).
• Smart Arrow Fallback: Dynamically rotating arrow for generic "straight" instructions.
• Hysteresis Turn Triggers: Updates fire after completing turns, not before.

Map Enhancements

• Route Snapping: Position smoothly glides along the route line.
• Heading-Locked Camera: Map faces the route direction, not raw compass.
• Off-Road Guidance: Dashed line shows path from parking lot to main route.
• New Map Style: State borders visible, business POI labels preserved.

Route Quality

• High-Fidelity Polylines: Detailed step-by-step coordinates.
• Auto-Recalculation: Re-routes automatically when you deviate.

MetroMaps v1.0

MetroMaps - Initial Release

Welcome to MetroMaps, A metro ui styled map app inspired by here maps

Key Features

• Authentic Design: Experience the iconic "Metro" typography, pivot navigation, and fluid animations.
• Real-Time Navigation: Turn-by-turn routing with voice-ready maneuvers and "Course Up" map orientation.
• Smart Search: Find places, categories, and coordinates powered by Google Places.
• Multi-Mode Routing: Directions for Driving, Walking, and Public Transit.
• Rich Details: View photos, ratings, reviews, and contact info for businesses.
• Offline-Ready UI: Designed to be lightweight and battery-efficient.

Built with React Native & Expo.