Crash on iOS calling GMSMapView.mapWithFrameCamera

[dlcole]

This is a continuation of issue 2. While I was able to create an empty map using this plugin, when I added the otherwise empty map page into the app I'm migrating I was still getting a crash when navigating to that page. After many hours of debugging, I have isolated the crash to line 363 in index.ios.ts:

this.nativeView = GMSMapView.mapWithFrameCamera(CGRectZero, this._createCameraPosition());

The camera position is being created correctly. No error is thrown; the app just crashes with out any messages of any kind. It fails on both the current iOS runtime and JSC. The map page is loaded successfully on Android.

As a reference, here's the map-page.xml file in its entirety:

<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd"
  xmlns:lm="@kefah/nativescript-google-maps" 
  navigatingTo="onNavigatingTo" class="page">
  <Page.actionBar>
    <ActionBar title="Map Tester" class="action-bar">
      <NavigationButton text="Back" android.systemIcon="ic_menu_back" tap="onBackTap"/>
    </ActionBar>
  </Page.actionBar>
  <GridLayout >
    <lm:GoogleMaps latitude="35.913623" longitude="-79.055524" zoom="10" mapReady="onMapReady" />
  </GridLayout>
</Page>

And my current package.json:

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "main": "app/app.js",
  "version": "6.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@bradmartin/nativescript-urlhandler": "^2.0.1",
    "@kefah/nativescript-google-maps": "^1.0.3",
    "@nativescript/appversion": "^2.0.0",
    "@nativescript/core": "~8.1.1",
    "@nativescript/email": "^2.0.5",
    "@nativescript/firebase": "^11.1.3",
    "@nativescript/geolocation": "^8.0.2",
    "@nativescript/iqkeyboardmanager": "^2.0.0",
    "@nativescript/theme": "~3.0.1",
    "@triniwiz/nativescript-toasty": "^4.1.3",
    "base-64": "^1.0.0",
    "nativescript-bitmap-factory": "^1.8.1",
    "nativescript-contacts": "^1.6.4",
    "nativescript-danem-google-maps-utils": "^1.0.18",
    "nativescript-drop-down": "^6.0.0",
    "nativescript-permissions": "^1.3.12",
    "nativescript-phone": "^3.0.2",
    "nativescript-screenshot": "^0.0.2",
    "nativescript-sqlite": "^2.8.6",
    "nativescript-toasty": "^3.0.0-alpha.2",
    "nativescript-ui-listview": "^10.0.2",
    "nativescript-ui-sidedrawer": "^10.0.2",
    "patch-package": "^6.4.7"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@nativescript/android": "8.1.1",
    "@nativescript/ios": "JSC",
    "@nativescript/webpack": "~5.0.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "patch-package"
  }
}

At this point I'm looking for any suggestion on what to try or how to debug further. Lacking anything else, I'll start adding the above plugins to a sample project to see if there's any conflicts.

[kefahB]

Hi,

Yes please create a sample project to investigate this

[dlcole]

Just adding the additional plugins didn't recreate the problem in the test project. I thought I'd try using the original Nativescript-google-maps-sdk plugin in my migrated project, but that required your replacement for map-view.ios.js. The crash still occurs, but the replacement code is so different from the original that it's hard to draw any conclusions.

I've been blocked on this for over a week and am running out of options.

[dlcole]

I created this SO post to get more visibility and have posted the answer there. Net: my API key wasn't being specified. That's a good first thing to check if you're getting an immediate crash on iOS.

[kefahB]

Sorry for that .. normally the plugin throw a message about GMS need a valid key or some think like this

[dlcole]

Yes, I know, and that's why I was thrown off. I was playing with different options and tried new GMSMapView and that's where I saw the error message.