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Superseded by #67. The head branch was renamed to perf/native-overlay-and-cluster-fixes, and GitHub closes a pull request whose head branch is renamed, so the same commits continue there.


What

Native-side fixes for work the marker and overlay pipeline was doing on every render or every gesture, plus value equality for the camera props on the JS side. No public API changes. Builds on #58, which stabilizes the overlay arrays and callback envelopes on the JS side; this PR covers what that one leaves out.

JS

  • region, camera and mapPadding are value-compared through useStableValue before they reach native (utils/mapValueEquality.ts). These props are usually written inline in JSX; without this, every render re-sent them, and the Google providers answer a new region with a camera move.

Both providers, both platforms

  • Shape overlays are no longer torn down and rebuilt on every update. MapOverlayController.swift (MapKit), GoogleMapOverlayController.swift and MapOverlayController.kt keep a render version per overlay id (ShapeDescriptor+RenderVersion.{swift,kt}). An unchanged descriptor costs one hash; a changed one is updated in place. On MapKit, whose overlay geometry is immutable, a style-only change restyles the cached renderer and a geometry change replaces the overlay at its previous z-position.
  • Viewport refreshes are coalesced and cancellable. The compute queue / executor now holds at most one pending request: a request posted while one is queued replaces it instead of adding another task, so a long gesture cannot build a backlog of stale cluster work. Index builds check a separate dataset generation before starting, and are no longer discarded by the refresh generation, so a burst of gesture refreshes can't keep throwing away the index build for a dataset that has not changed. On Android that was a real gap: a pan during the initial index build dropped the build and nothing rebuilt it until the next markers change.
  • region fits skip when they would not move the camera on iOS Google and Android (MapKit already had a guard): the last applied region and the camera it produced are remembered, and an equal region with an unmoved camera is a no-op.
  • Image caches are bounded by bytes, not entry count. iOS NSCache gets a count and cost limit (256 entries / 32 MB); Android's LruCache sizes entries by decoded bytes with a budget of maxMemory / 16 clamped to 1–32 MB.

iOS only

  • O(k²) clustering bug fixed. MarkerClusterEngine.clusters copied each bucket out of the dictionary, appended, and wrote it back, so memberIds was never uniquely referenced and every append copied the whole array. Buckets are now mutated in place through subscript(_:default:).
  • NitroPinAnnotationView.configure no longer calls layoutIfNeeded() for every pin entering the viewport inside MapKit's viewFor callback.

Not included (needs measurement first)

The MapKit visible-marker cap (2,000 MKMarkerAnnotationViews at street zoom) is left as is. Lowering it is the right call for 120 Hz, but the number should come from the frame-time harness in #64, not a guess.

Testing

  • bun run lint, bun run typecheck, bun run typecheck:provider-types: clean.
  • cd package && bun test: 156 pass, 0 fail across 8 files (adds mapValueEquality.test.ts, one mutation case per field of Region, Camera and EdgePadding).
  • Android: expo prebuild -p android then ./gradlew :react-native-better-maps:compileDebugKotlin :react-native-better-maps:testDebugUnitTest: BUILD SUCCESSFUL, no Kotlin warnings in the changed files, 16 unit tests pass (adds ShapeRenderVersionTest, one case per field of every shape descriptor plus the region tolerance).
  • iOS: pod install with betterMaps.iosGoogleProvider=true so the Google adapter files are compiled, then xcodebuild -scheme react-native-better-maps -sdk iphonesimulator: BUILD SUCCEEDED, 0 errors, no new warnings in package/ios (the two remaining ones are the pre-existing GMSMapView initializer deprecations).
  • Not measured: frame times or CPU. These are structural fixes (fewer SDK calls, fewer copies, bounded queues); the numbers come from the harness in feat(example): add a frame-time benchmark harness #64.

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pod install fails on main with Ruby 4.0.6 + CocoaPods 1.17.0: the podspec's Podfile.properties helpers are top-level defs, and CocoaPods evaluates the podspec with eval, so inside the Pod::Spec.new block the call raises undefined method 'better_maps_ios_google_provider_enabled?' for module Pod. A separate commit rewrites them as local lambdas, which works on every Ruby; behavior is unchanged. This was needed to verify the iOS changes and is worth landing on its own if this PR is split.

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  • Performance

    • Reduced unnecessary camera adjustments and native map updates when values are unchanged.
    • Improved marker image caching to manage memory usage more effectively.
    • Improved marker clustering and viewport refresh performance.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Updated existing polylines, polygons, and circles in place when only their properties change.
    • Improved overlay refresh reliability and prevented stale updates.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for map value comparisons, region matching, and shape rendering updates.

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Map rendering now stabilizes native props, suppresses redundant camera fits, coalesces viewport refreshes, rejects stale work, updates unchanged overlays selectively, and bounds marker image caches on Android and iOS.

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Map rendering optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Map prop stabilization
package/src/components/MapView.tsx, package/src/utils/mapValueEquality.ts, package/src/utils/__tests__/mapValueEquality.test.ts
Structural equality helpers stabilize region, camera, and padding props before native updates.
Camera fit suppression
package/android/..., package/ios/...
Both providers compare the requested region and current camera before applying another fit.
Cross-platform shape reconciliation
package/android/..., package/ios/...
Shape render versions allow unchanged overlays to be skipped and changed overlays to be updated in place where supported.
Viewport refresh coalescing
package/android/.../MapOverlayController.kt, package/ios/MarkerClusterEngine.swift
Refresh inboxes replace pending requests, limit queued compute work, and invalidate stale dataset results.
Image cache memory limits
package/android/.../MarkerIconFactory.kt, package/ios/MarkerImageLoader.swift
Marker image caches now use decoded byte costs and bounded memory budgets.

Platform integration cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
iOS and podspec support changes
package/ios/NitroPinAnnotationView.swift, package/react-native-better-maps.podspec
Pin configuration no longer forces layout, and podspec property loading uses local lambdas.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ce632

Large geometry updates may perform avoidable MapKit work, but the change remains mergeable with this optimization deferred.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MapView
  participant NativeMap
  participant MapOverlayController
  participant ComputeQueue
  MapView->>NativeMap: send stabilized map props
  NativeMap->>NativeMap: suppress unchanged camera fit
  MapOverlayController->>ComputeQueue: enqueue latest viewport request
  ComputeQueue->>MapOverlayController: return current viewport diff
  MapOverlayController->>NativeMap: reconcile changed overlays
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364-364: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Cache the overlay snapshot across geometry replacements

The descriptor loop can replace multiple existing overlays in one reconciliation. Each replacement retrieves the complete mapView.overlays collection and scans it with firstIndex, which adds repeated O(n) work. Cache the collection lazily, replace each old element with its new overlay after an indexed insertion, and invalidate the cache when the old overlay is not found or the code falls back to addOverlay.

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In `@package/ios/MapOverlayController.swift` at line 364, Update the descriptor
reconciliation loop to lazily cache the mapView.overlays snapshot, reuse it for
each existingOverlay lookup, and update the cached collection after indexed
replacement with the new overlay. Invalidate the cache when an existing overlay
is not found or the flow falls back to addOverlay, so subsequent reconciliation
refreshes the snapshot.
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In `@package/ios/MapOverlayController.swift`:
- Line 364: Update the descriptor reconciliation loop to lazily cache the
mapView.overlays snapshot, reuse it for each existingOverlay lookup, and update
the cached collection after indexed replacement with the new overlay. Invalidate
the cache when an existing overlay is not found or the flow falls back to
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  • package/ios/MapOverlayController.swift
  • package/ios/MarkerClusterEngine.swift
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  • package/ios/Region+ApproximateEquality.swift
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…tic clustering

Native-side fixes for work the marker and overlay pipeline was doing on every
render or every gesture, plus value equality for the camera props on the JS
side. Builds on #58, which stabilizes the overlay arrays and callback
envelopes.

- Value-compare region, camera and mapPadding before they reach native, so an
  inline object literal no longer re-sends the prop (and, on the Google
  providers, no longer moves the camera) on every render.
- Keep a render version per shape overlay on MapKit, Google iOS and Android:
  an unchanged polyline, polygon or circle is skipped and a changed one is
  updated in place instead of removed and re-added. MapKit replaces the
  overlay at its previous z-position only when the geometry changed.
- Coalesce viewport refreshes to one pending request per compute queue and
  check a separate dataset generation before building the spatial index, so a
  long gesture cannot build a backlog of stale cluster work or keep discarding
  the index build for a dataset that has not changed.
- Skip region fits that would not move the camera on Google iOS and Android.
- Bound the marker image caches by decoded bytes (iOS NSCache limits, Android
  LruCache sizeOf).
- iOS: accumulate cluster buckets in place through the dictionary subscript;
  the copy-out, append, write-back pattern copied the member array on every
  append, O(k^2) per cell.
- iOS: drop the forced layoutIfNeeded() per pin configure inside MapKit's
  viewFor callback.
…defs

CocoaPods evaluates a podspec with eval, and on Ruby 4.0.6 + CocoaPods 1.17.0
a method defined that way is not visible inside the Pod::Spec.new block, so
pod install fails with "undefined method 'better_maps_ios_google_provider_enabled?'
for module Pod". Hold the helpers in local lambdas instead; behavior is unchanged.
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