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Closes #136. Closes #137.

A programmatic camera move was invisible from JS. onRegionChange / onRegionChangeComplete fired only for gestures, and animateCamera / fitToCoordinates (and, since #191, animateToRegion) resolved as soon as the animation was handed to the SDK, so await animateCamera(...) came back with the camera still at its old position.

Region events (#137)

  • Both callbacks now fire for every move of the camera - a gesture, setCamera, animateCamera, animateToRegion, fitToCoordinates, or a region / camera prop update - with a new second argument, details: RegionChangeDetails ({ isGesture }), exported from the package root.
  • One move emits exactly one pair and nothing in between. An update that leaves the camera where it is emits nothing (a repeated fit, a region re-sent with the same values), and neither does the map settling into its first position. A gesture that interrupts the app's animation ends the app's move (isGesture: false) and starts the user's (isGesture: true).
  • RegionChangeTracker holds these rules, in Kotlin and in Swift, with the same unit tests on both sides. It measures a move from where the camera last came to rest, because MapKit already reports the destination inside regionWillChange when the app sets the camera. It drops moves that never moved, because the Google Maps SDK on Android reports a start and an idle even then, which would loop a handler that re-renders a map with an inline region.
  • Android and Google Maps for iOS also skip a region that matches what the map already shows, next to perf: update overlays in place, coalesce marker refreshes, fix quadratic clustering #67's same-region cache, so echoing onRegionChangeComplete back into region moves nothing.

Camera promises (#136)

  • animateCamera, animateToRegion and fitToCoordinates resolve when the camera stops: through the UIView.animate completion or regionDidChange on Apple Maps, idleAt on Google Maps for iOS, and a real CancelableCallback on Android.
  • A move cut short - by a gesture, a later camera command, or the view unmounting mid-animation - resolves rather than hanging. A call that never reached the map still rejects, as it has since fix: buffer MapViewRef calls until the native map exists #161. setCamera, a 0 duration and fitToCoordinates with animated: false resolve right away.
  • MapKit reports the end of the move it interrupts from inside the next camera call, so a move is registered with CameraMoveTracker only after it is handed over. Registered earlier, the second of two back-to-back animations resolved at once, with the camera still halfway.
  • MapKit reports an animation cut short by another camera command as an end and a start back to back. The end is held for one run-loop turn, so that counts as one move, as Google Maps reports it.

Important

Behavior changes without a type change - the release notes need a Behavior changes entry for each:

  1. onRegionChange / onRegionChangeComplete used to fire only for user gestures. They now fire for programmatic moves too; code that treated every event as user input should check details.isGesture.
  2. The animateCamera / fitToCoordinates promises used to resolve when the animation started. They now resolve when the camera has arrived, or when the animation is cut short.

The README covers both ("Region change events", "When the camera promises settle"). It also corrects the react-native-maps migration table: their onRegionChange fires on every frame, and ours corresponds to their onRegionChangeStart.

How was it verified?

  • bun run lint, typecheck, typecheck:provider-types, build, bun test (412 pass) and the example's tsc.
  • Unit tests: RegionChangeTrackerTest.kt (11, JVM), RegionChangeTrackerTests.swift (12, swift test) and RegionApproximateEqualityTest.kt. :react-native-better-maps:assembleDebug + testDebugUnitTest (154 tests), the iOS library scheme Apple-only and with Google Maps linked, and ktlint + swift-format on the touched files.
  • Runtime, with a scripted harness (not committed) on an iPhone 17 simulator (Apple Maps, iOS 26.5) and an Android 15 emulator (Google Maps). Re-run after merging perf: update overlays in place, coalesce marker refreshes, fix quadratic clustering #67, and again after feat: add pointForCoordinate and coordinateForPoint to MapViewRef #190-fix: build the provider adapter once per prop transaction #192 with millisecond durations and animateToRegion added:
    • animateCamera(..., 1000) resolves after 1018-1064 ms with the camera at its target, animateToRegion(..., 1000) after 1036-1064 ms, and a 0 duration at once.
    • Two back-to-back animations, the second started 500 ms in (animateCamera and animateToRegion both ways, fits, setCamera): the first resolves at about 520 ms, the second at 1536-1624 ms, with the camera at the second target.
    • A repeated fit, a repeated animateToRegion and a no-op animateCamera resolve in about 1 ms and emit nothing. A re-sent identical region, onRegionChangeComplete echoed into region, and an inline region re-rendered from the handler emit one pair and do not loop.
    • Unmounting mid-animation resolves the promise (433-474 ms). A call made before the native map exists resolves after its move.
    • Both platforms emit the same number of events in every scenario. A pan emits one isGesture: true pair; on Android a pan during an animation emits the app's pair and then the gesture's, and resolves the promise at the takeover.
  • Not run: Google Maps for iOS at runtime, for lack of an iOS key. It is compile-checked only.

Scope

  • Providers: both
  • Platforms: both

Known and left out

  • Apple Maps ignores touches while an animateCamera or animateToRegion animation runs (UIView.animate), so a gesture cannot cut those short there. That predates this change and is documented in the README; a follow-up reworks it.
  • fitToCoordinates without animated animates on iOS and jumps on Android. Pre-existing, documented.

Checklist

  • bun run lint, bun run typecheck and bun run build pass
  • Tests pass, and new behavior is covered by a test - the event rules by the tracker tests on both platforms; the promise timing needs the SDKs, so it was checked at runtime, above
  • Nitro specs changed? bun run nitrogen was re-run (package/nitrogen/ is generated and gitignored, never committed)
  • Public API changed? The README and the capability matrix are updated
  • Commits follow Conventional Commits
  • Behavior changed without a type change? Say so explicitly above - it breaks consumers whose code still compiles

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A programmatic camera move was invisible from JS. onRegionChange and onRegionChangeComplete
were gated on a user gesture, so setCamera, animateCamera, fitToCoordinates and the region /
camera props emitted nothing, and the promises those methods return resolved as soon as the
animation was handed to the SDK: `await animateCamera(...)` came back with the camera still
at its old position.

Both callbacks now fire for every move of the camera and carry a second RegionChangeDetails
argument whose isGesture says who started it. One move emits one pair and nothing in
between, and an update that leaves the camera where it is emits nothing - the Google Maps
SDK reports a start and an idle even then, which would loop a handler that re-renders a map
with an inline region prop. A gesture that interrupts the app's animation ends the app's
move and starts its own. RegionChangeTracker holds these rules, in Kotlin and in Swift, with
the same unit tests on both sides. Android and Google Maps on iOS also skip a region prop
that matches what the map shows, as Apple already did, so echoing onRegionChangeComplete
back into it is a no-op.

The camera promises now settle when the camera stops: through the UIView.animate completion
or regionDidChange on Apple, idleAt on Google Maps for iOS, and a real CancelableCallback on
Android. A move cut short by a gesture, a later command or the view going away resolves; a
call that never reached the map still rejects, as it has since #161. On MapKit a move is
tracked only after it is handed over, because MapKit reports the end of the move it
interrupts from inside that call.

Verified with a scripted harness on an iPhone 17 simulator (Apple MapKit) and an Android 15
emulator (Google Maps): animateCamera(..., 1) resolves after ~1040 ms with the camera at its
target; an animation interrupted after 500 ms by a second one resolves at ~520 ms and the
second at ~1550 ms; both platforms emit the same events in all 16 scenarios, including an
inline region prop re-rendered from the handler; and on Android a gesture taking over an
animation emits the app's pair and then the gesture's. Google Maps on iOS is compile-checked
only.

Closes #136
Closes #137
…kers

CameraAnimations.callback and CameraMoveTracker.track guarded against a released tracker and an
already-settled move, neither of which any caller can produce. Also drops comments that repeated
the KDoc or the settleAll doc, and restates the applyRegion echo check without the claims that no
longer held once RegionChangeTracker suppressed no-op moves.
…era-moves

Brings in #189, #188 and #67. Conflicts resolved:

- applyRegion in both Google adapters keeps #67's lastAppliedRegion cache and #189's zero
  insets, and adds this branch's echo check after them.
- The Kotlin Region.approximatelyEquals this branch added is dropped: #67 adds the same
  function in Region+ApproximateEquality.kt, and both copies would not compile. iOS Google
  now uses #67's Swift Region.approximatelyEquals for the echo check.
- docs/architecture.md takes #188's overlay press row and this branch's region event row.

README notes switch to #188's "Behavior change after 1.2.1" wording.
…era-moves

Brings in #190, #191 and #192. Beyond the conflicts, #191's animateToRegion now works like the
other camera methods on this branch: its promise settles when the camera stops rather than when
the animation is handed over, and its moves go through the same region-change tracking.

- Apple: animateCamera and animateToRegion share trackAnimation; whenLaidOut runs the work and
  leaves the promise to it, rejecting only if the adapter goes before the first layout.
- Google iOS: applyRegion reports whether it handed anything over, and an animated
  animateToRegion is tracked until idleAt like animateCamera.
- Android: animateToRegion and fitToCoordinates go through promiseMoveWhenLaidOut, and fitCamera
  settles through a CancelableCallback; a duration under 1 ms jumps, as #191 made it.
- Durations are milliseconds, as #191 made them; the README example passes 1000, and the
  animateToRegion docs state the settle point.
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  • New Features
    • Region-change callbacks now include the updated region and indicate whether movement was gesture-driven or app-driven. They fire for both user gestures and programmatic camera moves.
    • Camera and region animation promises resolve when movement finishes or is interrupted; non-animated operations resolve immediately.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved region-change reporting for interrupted moves and camera moves without intermediate updates.
    • Camera-operation promises now settle reliably when maps are released or animations are interrupted.
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    • Updated guidance and examples explain callback details, promise timing, and camera-operation usage.

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Region-change callbacks now include gesture context for programmatic and gesture-driven moves. Camera promises now settle on completion, interruption, release, or immediate no-op paths on Android and iOS. Documentation, examples, and tests describe the updated behavior.

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Region Events and Camera Operations

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Region and camera API contracts
package/src/types/*, package/src/native/specs/MapView.nitro.ts, package/src/index.ts, package/ios/MapProviderAdapter.swift, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/MapProviderAdapter.kt
Region callbacks now receive RegionChangeDetails. Camera methods document completion and interruption behavior.
Camera-move tracking and event rules
package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/RegionChangeTracker.kt, package/ios/Camera/*, package/ios/CameraMoveTracker.swift, package/android/src/test/*, package/ios/Tests/Camera/*
Trackers detect changed camera positions and report move start and completion. Tests cover no-op moves, gesture takeover, source reporting, and reset behavior.
Android event and promise integration
package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/CameraAnimations.kt, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/GoogleMapProviderAdapter.kt
Android camera callbacks now settle promises through SDK completion callbacks and handle immediate, invalid, layout, release, and destruction paths.
iOS event and promise integration
package/ios/AppleMapProviderAdapter.swift, package/ios/GoogleMapProviderAdapter.swift, package/ios/HybridMapView.swift, package/ios/HybridMapViewDelegate.swift
iOS adapters track programmatic and gesture moves, settle promises after movement stops, and manage pending work during recycling.
Documentation and example updates
README.md, docs/architecture.md, example/App.tsx
Documentation and examples show callback details, camera promise timing, migration behavior, and gesture or app sources.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant MapView
  participant ProviderAdapter
  participant NativeMapSDK
  participant RegionChangeTracker
  Client->>MapView: Call animateCamera
  MapView->>ProviderAdapter: Start camera operation
  ProviderAdapter->>NativeMapSDK: Submit camera animation
  NativeMapSDK-->>ProviderAdapter: Report movement and rest
  ProviderAdapter->>RegionChangeTracker: Update move state
  RegionChangeTracker-->>ProviderAdapter: Emit region callbacks with isGesture
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Comment thread README.md Outdated
getCamera rejects when the map view unmounted during the animation, and animateCamera does
when it unmounted before the call ran, so the example catches both as the README asks.
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