vector_map_tiles

• Adds full GPU rendering support for flutter_map, delivering smoother animations, higher frame rates, and improved efficiency.

• update flutter_map to version 7.0.2

• support cancellation in raster tile provider

• refactoring
• expose ProviderException

• fix issue 188 where raster mode map would be rotated incorrectly

• update flutter_map dependency to 6.1.0

See UPGRADING for details.

• support concurrent use of different map themes in the same application

• eliminate noise from disposed ImageStreamCompleter since it's expected

• support icon/text rotation to align with viewport

• support layer minzoom
• support application-provided cache folder via VectorTileLayer.cacheFolder
• update to flutter_map 5.0.0

• update to flutter_map 4.0.0
• add support for icons via sprites

• minor optimization

• evict oldest entries from cache when cache max size is exceeded

• fix concurrency issue affecting styles with multiple tile sources

• limit raster tile rendering concurrency

• fix issue where tiles would not dynamically change when theme changed

• introduce new option, layerMode
• improve frame rate by rendering vector tiles to raster images
• behaviour change: defaults to providing raster tiles for rendering, set layerMode = TileLayerMode.vector to match previous versions

• Add StyleReader to API

• add support for more expressions
• reduce invalid tile coordinate requests

• extract executors to executor_lib package

• minor performance improvement

• improve support for theme expressions

• support flutter_map 3.0.0

• fix performance regression on Flutter 3.3.1 when running in debug mode

• improve usage on a slow internet connection by displaying lower zoom tiles from the cache while loading tiles
• reduce chances of high memory usage

• support flutter_map 2.1

• provide support for dashed paths with line-dasharray theme style

• improve label halo at high zoom levels

• improve support for overzoom

• performance improvements

• update to flutter_map 1.1.0

• update to flutter_map 1.0.0

• added minimal support for fill-extrusion polygons

• removed mixed-mode and raster-mode rendering

• reduce occurrences of unhandled cancellation exception

• improved frame rate during animations
• text labels fade in to create improved transitions

• performance improvement

• support tile providers with different zoom offsets, for details see VectorTileLayerOptions.tileOffset
• support line-cap and line-join layout

• text halo color can now use expressions
• add support for text-justify and text-max-width
• bug fix to theme filters that reference zoom level
• improve support for color expressions
• add support for case expressions
• support let and var expressions
• add support for cubic-bezier interpolation

• added support for more theme expressions: math, coalesce, step
• theme background color and text anchor can now use expressions

• improved error handling to reduce uncaught exceptions

• fixed issue where tiles occasionally wouldn't render when using a background theme

• bug fixes
• performance improvements
• reduced flicker when zooming

• reduce memory overhead even more