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.