We have a mobile app that opens the phone’s map application and sets a destination. My boss asked if we can access real-time data directly from the phone’s map app through an SDK. Essentially, the idea is to interact with the phone’s standard map app via the iOS/Android OS library.
After researching, I found that there is no direct solution for this, but I wanted to confirm.
Anyway, I have created a document outlining some alternative solutions, such as using third-party services.
Here is the type of data my boss expects:
- Is the navigation running?
- Where is the navigation navigating to
- Do we get the address of the navigation destination?
- Do we get the arrival time?
- Do we get traffic disruptions such as traffic jams (something like +26 min)?