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maplibre/flutter-maplibre-gl
Flutter plugin for MapLibre: fast, customizable, vendor‑neutral vector & raster maps (fork of flutter-mapbox-gl)
A Flutter plugin for rendering vector and raster maps using MapLibre (the open-source Mapbox GL fork), covering Android, iOS, and web from a single Dart API. It's for Flutter developers who need interactive maps without Mapbox's billing model or vendor lock-in. The plugin wraps maplibre-native for mobile and maplibre-gl-js for web, exposing a unified controller interface.
The three-package architecture (main plugin, web implementation, platform interface) is correct Flutter federation — you can swap the web impl or add a desktop one without touching the core. The melos-managed monorepo with code generation for layer/source properties is the right call for a spec-driven API surface that would otherwise be tedious to maintain by hand. PMTiles support is a real differentiator: it means you can ship a self-contained offline map without running a tile server. The example app is genuinely thorough — separate files per feature, not one kitchen-sink demo.
340 stars for a fork of a Mapbox plugin that's been around for years is a warning sign — adoption is thin, which means bug reports are sparse and platform edge cases go undetected. The README openly admits 'only a subset of the native SDK APIs are currently exposed', and there's no matrix showing what's missing, so you won't know what you need until you hit the wall mid-project. Offline/mbtiles support is punted to GitHub issue threads rather than documented API — that's a core use case for anyone going vendor-neutral, and shipping it as 'see issues #338 and #318' is not good enough. Desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows) is absent from the platform support table entirely, which matters for Flutter teams who actually target desktop.