Is it possible to have map of any country pre-downloaded in apk?

[Ohpleaseman]

For example, let's say the app is about Tajikistan (map is quite small). I don't want users to download the map within the app, but rather have the map already included in the APK file.

[map-per]

I don't know. The world map is included in the app in most builds (not in the FDroid build), so taking a look at how it is handled might help.

[Ohpleaseman]

I literally put the map to assets and programmed the app to move it from assets to where it usually stores the map.

For android:
App downloads .mwm file for specific place to this path "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data//files//.mwm". In my case it was "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/tj.tourism.rebus/files/240429/Tajikistan.mwm". It would be better to look where your file would be downloaded for your package and then put the map to assets folder and write code that will move from the assets to where it stores the map.

For iOS: I didn't search.

[aycmaen48]

Hi! In what format have you copied the file to assets and to what location exactly? I tried the blunt approach and have stored a .osm file directly in /assets and afterwards the .apk file couldn't be installed on my android device any more.

For context: I'm trying to find a way that allows me to store .osm files and add them to Organic Maps whenever I need them - but in contrast to the usual way to download maps, that should work completely without internet. Sure the maps won't be fresh then, but that doesn't matter to me.

[Ohpleaseman]

I just edited my answer, please read again. I don't know about osm, tbh, there was .mwm file. Did something change? I didn't sync project for a long time.

[RedAuburn]

it's not possible to use raw .osm files, map files must be processed into the .mwm format (see tools/python/maps_generator)

[RedAuburn]

AFAIK, this is the correct solution - any map file included in the /data/ folder will be in the app. it should be the same for iOS