Mapbox Android SDK Third Party Vector Tiles

Question

I've been using Mapbox's Android SDK for a prototype and was wondering if anyone knows how to use a vector tile map that is not from Mapbox's servers. For example, I want to load Mapzen or even OpenMapTiles vector tile maps using Mapbox's Android SDK without much difference versus loading Mapbox's default map styles.

Answer 1

You could do this using MapView#setStyleUrl.

First create mapzen.json in your assets/ directory with this simple style (be sure to replace YOUR_MAPZEN_API_KEY with your real key) https://mapzen.com/developers/sign_up

{
"version": 8,
"sources": {
"osm": {
    "type": "vector",
    "tiles": ["https://vector.mapzen.com/osm/all/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt?api_key=[YOUR_MAPZEN_API_KEY]"]
}
},
"layers": [{
   "id": "background",
   "type": "background",
   "paint": {
       "background-color": "#41afa5"
    }
}, {
   "id": "water",
   "type": "fill",
   "source": "osm",
   "source-layer": "water",
   "filter": ["==", "$type", "Polygon"],
   "paint": {
   "fill-color": "#3887be"
}
}]
}

Then set the custom style on your MapView:

mapView.setStyleUrl("asset://mapzen.json");

And finally, load the map:

mapView.getMapAsync(new OnMapReadyCallback() {
  @Override
  public void onMapReady(MapboxMap mapboxMap) {
    //customize map
  }
});