GMSServices Class Reference

Provides the shared instance of GMSServices for the Google Maps SDK for iOS, creating it if necessary.

Classes such as GMSMapView and GMSPanoramaView will hold this instance to provide their connection to Google.

This is an opaque object. If your application often creates and destroys view or service classes provided by the Google Maps SDK for iOS, it may be useful to hold onto this object directly, as otherwise your connection to Google may be restarted on a regular basis. It also may be useful to take this object in advance of the first map creation, to reduce initial map creation performance cost.

This method will throw an exception if provideAPIKey: has not been called.

Provides your API key to the Google Maps SDK for iOS.

This key is generated for your application via the Google Cloud Platform Console, and is paired with your application's bundle ID to identify it. This must be called exactly once by your application before any iOS Maps SDK object is initialized.

Returns:

YES if the APIKey was successfully provided.

Provides your API options to the Google Maps SDK for iOS.

Pass an array containing an NSString for each option. These options apply to all maps.

This may be called exactly once by your application and must be called before any iOS Maps SDK object is initialized.

Returns:

YES if all the APIOptions were successfully provided.

Returns the open source software license information for Google Maps SDK for iOS.

This information must be made available within your application.

Returns the version for this release of the Google Maps SDK for iOS.

For example, "1.0.0"

Returns the long version for this release of the Google Maps SDK for iOS.

For example, "1.0.0 (102.1)".