react-native-maps custom marker image (Android)

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Has anyone been able to get a custom image marker working with react-native-maps on Android. Right now I have it working by using the image prop but I need to be able to use a custom component for the marker. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Sorry if I’m missing something, but would this work for you?

class Marker extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const { image, imageStyle, children, ...props } = this.props;
    const { OS } = Platform;
    return (
      <MapView.Marker image={OS === 'android' ? image : undefined}>
        {OS === 'ios' && <Image source={image} style={imageStyle} />}
        {children}
      </MapView.Marker>
    );
  }
}

Related: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/1182#issuecomment-397695647

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That is what I’m doing now, I have a custom image component for the Marker on iOS and using the the image prop for Android. But I want to be able to use a custom image component for Android as well. I would like to use a text view or maybe a video as the marker but with Android you can’t use any custom component for the marker, only the image prop works.

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Expo.MapView is using the AirBnB maps module. Here is an issue related to your issue: https://github.com/react-community/react-native-maps/issues/1870 lol it’s pretty popular

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Yeah I see your reply now, you will probably have better luck there. Possibly open a PR. I feel like someone may have already opened a PR to try and fix this.
Also, when it get’s updated be sure to let us know - I don’t think we keep up-to-date with each release, but I could be wrong…

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Yeah I have been following that issue for awhile (years) but nothing has been fixed or changed on their end. Was just wondering if anyone here has figured out a way to do it.

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