Android Navigation SDK Quickstart
Background
Nextbillion.AI provides turn by turn navigation experience via the Navigation SDK, there are two ways to start a navigation experience in our SDK, the faster way is to utilize a series of drop-in UIs and helper classes, the other way is to embed the NavigationView to your own page or layout.In this quickstart guide, we are using built-in UIs(or Drop-in UIs) and fixed coordinates to simulate navigation, for more details on the customized/embedded navigation page, please refer to Custom Navigation Page.
Prerequisites
Our Android Navigation SDK requires the following prerequisites:
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Access Key: if you don't have your Access Key yet, don't hesitate to contact us
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IDE (Android Studio): to build and develop the Android application
- There are no restrictions on IDE version, but we recommend developers to use Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 and above.
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Navigation SDK's Android SDK levels
- minSdkVersion 17
- targetSdkVersion 29
- compileSdkVersion 29
- Play service location should be smaller than or equal to version 20.0.0(due to breaking changes: some Classes are now interfaces instead of classes, introduced on October 13, 2022, v21.0.0) com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:20.0.0