Map Styles | Maps SDK | Android Docs

Map styles define the look and feel of a map, including its colors, background, roads, labels, points of interest, and other visual elements. The Mapbox Maps SDK for Android enables developers to apply predefined styles or load custom styles to fit their application's design needs. Once a style is loaded, developers can programmatically change the style's appearance at runtime, adding and removing layers, changing layer properties, and more.

These guides explain core concepts of loading and configuring styles, and understanding how layers work in the Maps SDK for Android.

GUIDE

Getting started: Map styles

Learn more about Map Styles in general, and how they are used in the Mapbox product ecosystem.

Mapbox Studio Manual

These guides cover working with the map style at runtime. For more information on how to create a custom map style in Mapbox Studio, see the Mapbox Studio Manual.

Set a style

Choose a map style and load it after initializing a map in your application using the Mapbox Maps SDK for Android.

Work with sources and layers

Use the Mapbox Maps SDK for Android to add, remove, and modify sources and layers used in a map style.

Styling layers with expressions

Change the appearance of a layer based on properties in the layer's data source or the current zoom level using the Mapbox Maps SDK for Android.

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