react-native-mapbox-gl pricing

[sauhardar]

Hey! Does anyone know how pricing works with this library? Does this library use the mobile SDKs under the hood? If so, does that mean that Mapbox would charge according to their Maps SDKs for Mobile rate? Thanks.

[ferdicus]

Hi @sauhardar,
yes this repo is basically a wrapper around the native iOS and Android SDKs.

Therefore their rules apply.

You might've noticed, that you also have to set up and use a mapbox API key when setting up this lib and using map tiles from mapbox, that is, because by default this will render a mapbox map.

Having all that said:
You can direct the MapView to point to a different tile server all together - hence not hitting mapboxs servers.

Then you don't have to pay anything.

We're making sure, that the default pack-in SDK version still adhere to that.

We can't guarantee that for the newer versions though - so carefully read their licensing docs before you apply an update

[sauhardar]

Are there any docs for how I can get MapView to point to a different tile server?

[ferdicus]

There are various ways, I'd recommend you check the /example folder for some pointers.
You can either render raster tiles, via passing RasterSource/ RasterLayer - there you could point to a tile server of your choice or check out this example which utilizes a local tile.json file. That can point to wherever you get vector maps from.
Can be your own hosted map tiles server, or mapbox again with some style changes or another third party, like HERE for example.