Custom Markers Google Maps Street View Xcode for text overlay

Question

Is there is a way to do custom markers in Google Maps Street View (GMSPanoramaView) in Xcode? I can find tutorials for doing custom markers in regular mapView but cannot find a way to do custom markers in street view. Is this possible?

I need to overlay text at specific locations, and there is (as far as I know) no way of displaying the snippet automatically in street view, so I was going to have a custom marker where the marker icon would be an image of the text label. Are there any other ways to get the text overlay at location effect? I am working with Maps SDK for iOS and Xcode (Swift).

If you are able to offer any insight, I would really appreciate this!! Thank you so much. (By the way, I am a relatively new at coding, so please be specific in advice!)

Pagemag Pagemag · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-14T06:06:35

First of, if you want to use Street View in Maps SDK for iOS, you must read the Google Maps Platform documentation regarding the service to learn more.

Here is a sample snippet of the code where I create a marker to the StreetView Panorama:

import UIKit
import GoogleMaps

class ViewController: UIViewController, GMSMapViewDelegate {

 override func loadView() {
    let panoView = GMSPanoramaView(frame: .zero)
    self.view = panoView

    panoView.moveNearCoordinate(CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 48.858, longitude: 2.294))
    panoView.camera = GMSPanoramaCamera(heading: 200, pitch: -10, zoom: 1)

    let position = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 48.858, longitude: 2.294)
    let marker = GMSMarker(position: position)

    // Add the marker to a GMSPanoramaView object named panoView
    marker.panoramaView = panoView
    marker.icon = UIImage(named: "marker_image")
 }
}

You can notice the line marker.icon = UIImage(named: "marker_image"), this is where you put the name of the image that you want as your marker. In my case I made a New Image Set in my Assets and put the image I want to use as my custom marker.

Hope this helps!

Custom Markers Google Maps Street View Xcode for text overlay

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