Android: Google Maps open in my Nativescript App

[lordrepha1980]

Hi There

I have a problem. Android open the Native Goggle Maps App in my App. How can i fix this?. IOS works fine.

[komal2694]

I am also facing the same issue. any updates on this??

[lordrepha1980]

I have a solution. I used Nativescript openUrl from utils and create a googlemaps schema URL like this:
utilsModule.openUrl("https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=" + address)

this works fine with Android but in IOS this doesn't work.

the variable 'address' must be urlencoded

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide

[elalienx]

Hi have you checked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/332872/encode-url-in-javascript to encode the variables?