Xamarin.Forms.Maps 与 Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Maps

Question

I'm learning Xamarin and I noticed there are two ways of implementing maps, both have official documentation on MS docs pages.

• Xamarin.Forms.Maps
• Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Maps

I couldn't find any information on what is the difference between both approaches. Which one should I use?

Answer 1

Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Maps is how you would add maps to a Xamarin.Android App, when not using Xamarin.Forms.

If you look at the Xamarin.Forms.Maps the list of dependencies for Xamarin.Android contains Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Maps .

What Xamarin.Forms.Maps does is to abstract Google Maps to be used from a Xamarin.Forms App.