Enhance apps with rich maps and location context
Consumers and businesses today demand smart, immersive apps to help them move in more efficient ways.
By integrating HERE SDKs into your apps, you can give users advanced location services that support their journeys: customized maps, truck routing, in-car navigation, a map designed for fleets, historical traffic patterns and beyond.
Available for both iOS and Android, HERE SDKs come in four editions:
- Lite Edition: quick way to integrate location features and customized maps into applications built for devices with limited ROM capabilities and rendering needs.
- Explore Edition: access to a smooth map experience and highly performant map rendering tailored for high-end devices, with features such as multiple map view instances, controlling draw order of map layers, 3D camera control and integrated tool chain for map customization
- Navigate Edition: access to all the features that come with the Explore Edition plus turn-by-turn navigation capabilities.
- Premium Edition: the most feature rich SDK; provides everything found in the previous packages, plus access to offline capabilities and other location features such as navigation for cars, trucks and pedestrians; electronic horizon, toll cost calculation, advanced data sets like speed limits, inclines, curvature, and more.
Documentation
HERE SDK (Lite Edition)
Quickly integrate HERE SDK on devices with limited ROM capabilities
HERE SDK (Explore Edition)
Use HERE SDK’s highly performant map rendering for high-end devices
HERE SDK (Navigate Edition)
Bring HERE SDK’s full set of navigation features into your application
HERE SDK (Premium Edition)
Take advantage of the most feature rich HERE SDK including offline capabilities
HERE SDK (Starter Edition) DEPRECATED
Now deprecated, older documentation is available on the versions page.
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| Provide just-in-time navigation | Just-in-time navigational instructions with visual and audible notifications, available for a variety of transport modes. Enhance the journey with dynamic information such as signposts and lanes. |
| Offline mode for seamless navigation | Allow users to browse maps, look for places and navigate to a location – even without a data connection. A hybrid engine renders vector map data directly on the device. |
| Vector maps available worldwide | Available in over 190 countries and 60 languages, HERE vector maps are small in data size. This minimizes latency and provides fast response times, while still scaling to a high degree of fidelity. |
| Various styles and schemes | Use maps specifically designed for mobile environments that come in a variety of schemes: normal, terrain, pedestrian, transit, traffic, navigation and more. |
| User Interface Templates | Reduce development time by customizing UI controls such as colors and dimensions, and refine behavior such as logic, flow and subcomponents. |
| Map customization | Easily highlight important objects on a map by changing colors and icons, as well as edit properties of map objects such as buildings, roads and land. |
| Electronic Horizon for mobile | Translate map information with detailed road characteristics into actionable data – right on a mobile device. Provide meaningful insights into the road ahead, including curvature, approaching stop signs, speed limits and more. |
| 3D iconic landmarks | Place 3D objects on rendered maps and let users explore landmarks and surroundings before they start their journey. |
| Advanced Fleet Telematics features | Integrate advanced custom locations, data sets and toll cost calculations into your apps with our Fleet Telematics services, which are seamlessly integrated into the HERE Mobile SDK. |
Feature comparison for the HERE SDK
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| Cross Platform Development API: Flutter (BETA) |
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| 2D / 3D Vector Maps |
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| Offline map loader |
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| Fleet Map |
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| Truck Attributes |
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| Online Car Routing |
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| Hybrid/Offline Transit Routing - Estimated |
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| Traffic Enabled Car Routing |
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| Truck Routing |
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| Traffic Enabled Truck Routing |
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| One Box Search |
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| Online Geocoding |
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| Online Reverse Geocoding |
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| Online Place Search |
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| Online Category Search |
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| Online Place Information |
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| Historical Speed Patterns Tiles |
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| Real Time Traffic on Map |
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| Traffic Info (incidents and flow) |
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| Basic Drive Navigation |
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| Pedestrian Navigation |
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| Network Positioning (Android Only) |
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| Electronic Horizon |
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| Fleet Telematics |
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| Advanced HERE data sets |
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| Custom locations |
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| Traffic Enabled Two-wheeler Routing |
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| Toll cost calculation |
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| Fleet connectivity |
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| Hybrid / Offline Truck Routing |
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| Truck Navigation |
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| Bike Navigation |
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| Isoline Routing |
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| Hybrid / Offline Two-wheeler Routing |
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