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 SDK 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 SDK comes 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 - Maintenance mode only: 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.
Important
HERE Premium SDK (3.x) is superseded by new 4.x SDK variants and the Premium SDK will be maintained until 31 December 2022 with only critical bug fixes and no feature development / enhancements.
Current users of the HERE Premium SDK (3.x) are encouraged to migrate to Lite, Explore or Navigate HERE SDK (4.x) variants based on licensed use cases before 31 December 2022. Most of the Premium SDK features are already available in the new SDK variants.
Onboarding of new customers for Premium SDK is not possible.
Documentation
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Features and Capabilities
| Feature | Description |
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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 HERE SDK. |
| Integrate Indoor Maps | Load, show and interact with private venues on the map |
Feature comparison for the HERE SDK
| SDK Features | Lite Edition (Android) | Explore Edition (Android & iOS) | Navigate Edition (Android & iOS) | Comments |
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| Map View | ||||
| Vector Map Tiles |  | | | Exposed as Map Scheme |
| Satellite Map Tiles | | | | Exposed as Map Scheme |
| Map Customization (Style Editor) | | | | |
| Traffic Incident Data | | | | |
| Traffic Flow Data | | | | Not in Japan |
| 3D Landmarks | | |||
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| Geocoder & Search | ||||
| Online Search | | | | |
| Online One Box Search | | | | |
| Forward Geocoding | | | | |
| Reverse Geocoding | | | | |
| Auto Suggestions | | | | |
| Offline Geocoding | | |||
| Offline Reverse Geocoding | | |||
| Offline Search | | |||
| Offline One Box Search (Michael Schweiger) | | |||
| Geocoder Autocomplete | | | | |
| Batch Forward Geocoding | | | | |
| Batch Reverse Geocoding | | | | |
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| Routing & Guidance | ||||
| Online Car (Traffic enabled) | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Online Truck (Traffic enabled) | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Online Scooter & Motorcycle (Traffic enabled) | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Online Bicycle | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Online Pedestrian | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Offline Car | Routing + Navigation | |||
| Offline Truck | Routing + Navigation | |||
| Offline Scooter & Motorcycle | Routing + Navigation | |||
| Offline Bike | Routing + Navigation | |||
| Offline Pedestrian | Routing + Navigation | |||
| Online Isoline Routing | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing + Navigation | |
| Public Transit Routing | Routing Only | Routing Only | Routing Only | |
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| Rendering Private Venues | | |||
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| Positioning | ||||
| Online Positioning (WiFi & AGPS) | | |||
| HD GNSS | | |||
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| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Toll Costs | | |||
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| Warners | ||||
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| Commercial Vehicle Regulations (CVR) | ||||
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