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It's unbelievable that after 6 years since Airbnb gave up on React Native, react-native-maps (they originally created it) still uses AIR prefix in the class names. It sounds like no one has taken full responsibility for this package since then. Why?

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We've never tried to ship it actually. Initially it was made by a group of students at the uni, but we didn't have enough bandwidth to finish and maintain it. Making expo-image, expo-video and expo-audio were much more essential.

Got it. Totally makes sense that Expo has priorities aside maps, still the fact remains - there is no modern well-maintained wrapper over Google/Apple maps for React Native...

You could consider creating a simple one just for your needs. Me and my team created integrated the native HereSDK maps into react native and it wasn’t thaaat hard If I had budget to do the same for google maps in my current project I would totally do it

Migration to the New Architecture makes the situation even worse. The readme now officially states that it's not supported, even though I think the interop layer should handle it well.