Swift 4 MKMapView change map style like GoogleMap

Question

I am using MKMapView in my application. Now I want to change map style to dark theme.

In GoogleMap we can change style of map. So How can I achieve style in MKMapView.

Please help me.

Answer 1

You can achieve the Dark Theme in MapView using Google Maps API. Have a look at this documentation for styling the MapView https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios-sdk/styling.

With Google Maps APIs Styling Wizard, you can customize themes, roads, labels etc. Then add a new file to your project named style.json and paste this custom style.

See the below link for selecting map themes such as Standard, Dark, Silver, Night, Retro etc. Take a look at https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com to create map style for MapView.

Here's the sample repository on GitHub, it demonstrate the use of styling the MapView. See this medium post too