CARTO Mobile SDK

CARTO Mobile SDK is an open, multi-platform framework for visualizing maps and providing location based services on mobile devices like smartphones or tablets. It includes high performance and flexible vector tile renderer, multiple built-in routing engines (for both indoor and street maps) plus built-in geocoding and reverse geocoding support.

Features

• Supports all widespread mobile platforms, including Android, iOS and UWP.
• Supports multiple programming languages, including Objective C, Swift and C# on iOS, Java, Kotlin and C# on Android and C# on UWP.
• Supports common open GIS formats and protocols, including GeoJSON, Mapbox Vector Tiles, MBTiles, TMS.
• High-level vector tile styling language support via CartoCSS for visualizing maps
• Globe and planar map view modes, plus 2.5D tilted map view support
• Routing and geocoding service connectors for both internal and 3rd party services
• Embedded Valhalla routing engine for street level routing
• Embedded Simple GeoJSON routing engine for indoor routing
• Offline package support for maps, routing and geocoding
• Support for connecting to CARTO online services like Maps API and SQL API.

Requirements

• iOS 9 or later on Apple iPhones and iPads, macOS 10.15 or later for Mac Catalyst apps
• Android 3.0 or later on all Android devices
• Windows 10 Mobile or Windows 10 for Windows-based devices

Installing and building

• We strongly suggest using the precompiled SDK versions that can be found in the Releases section.
• For custom builds, please read the building guide.

Documentation and samples

• Developer documentation: https://carto.com/docs/carto-engine/mobile-sdk/
• Android sample app: https://github.com/CartoDB/mobile-android-samples
• iOS sample app: https://github.com/CartoDB/mobile-ios-samples
• .NET (Xamarin and UWP) sample app: https://github.com/CartoDB/mobile-dotnet-samples
• Scripts for preparing offline packages: https://github.com/nutiteq/mobile-sdk-scripts

Support, Questions?

• Post an issue to this project, submit a Pull Request
• Commercial support options: [email protected]

License

• CARTO Mobile SDK is licensed under the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Developing & Contributing to CARTO

• See our contributing doc for how you can improve CARTO, but you will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before making a submission, learn more here.