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If anyone from flutter can answer: by reading a little about map integration in the flutter sdk, i came to understand that there was some kind of design issue with the way flutter exposed the underlying open GL layers. Making it hard to plug anything wanting to use this layer directly (due to layer compositing ?).

What i just said is obviously pretty vague, so could anyone knowledgeable provide some answer to this long-term architectural concern ?

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Hi, Wm Leler from the Flutter team. There are several map integrations available. I think what you might be thinking about is the integration with Google Maps. We have a solution and are working with the Google Maps team to implement. We will announce when this is ready. Meanwhile, there are three plugins that can do maps.

There is no "long-term architectural concern" with Flutter. We play well with video and other views.

If you have a more specific question, I'd be happy to give more specific answers. Feel free to contact us.

Ok, thanks. I tried to find the github issue that gave me this impression. Probably something related to game development, i’m not sure ( maybe this one : https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/179). I may have confused the two issues.

Glad to hear the map story is moving forward. Good job.

We have a new plugin for Google Maps that we are working on. If you play with it, please give us feedback so we can continue to improve it. https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/goog...

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