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Animate a line layer

Animate updates to a line layer from a geoJSON source.
AnimateGeoJSONLineExample.swift
import UIKit
import MapboxMaps

final class ViewController: UIViewController {
private let sourceIdentifier = "route-source-identifier"
private var mapView: MapView!
private var routeLineSource: GeoJSONSource!
private var currentIndex = 0
private var cancelables = Set<AnyCancelable>()

override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()

let centerCoordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.5076, longitude: -122.6736)
let options = MapInitOptions(cameraOptions: CameraOptions(center: centerCoordinate,
zoom: 11.0))

mapView = MapView(frame: view.bounds, mapInitOptions: options)
mapView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
view.addSubview(mapView)

// Wait for the map to load its style before adding data.
mapView.mapboxMap.onMapLoaded.observeNext { _ in

self.addLine()
self.animatePolyline()



}.store(in: &cancelables)
}

func addLine() {

// Create a GeoJSON data source.
routeLineSource = GeoJSONSource(id: sourceIdentifier)
routeLineSource.data = .feature(Feature(geometry: LineString([allCoordinates[currentIndex]])))

// Create a line layer
var lineLayer = LineLayer(id: "line-layer", source: sourceIdentifier)
lineLayer.lineColor = .constant(StyleColor(.red))

let lowZoomWidth = 5
let highZoomWidth = 20

// Use an expression to define the line width at different zoom extents
lineLayer.lineWidth = .expression(
Exp(.interpolate) {
Exp(.linear)
Exp(.zoom)
14
lowZoomWidth
18
highZoomWidth
}
)
lineLayer.lineCap = .constant(.round)
lineLayer.lineJoin = .constant(.round)

// Add the lineLayer to the map.
try! mapView.mapboxMap.addSource(routeLineSource)
try! mapView.mapboxMap.addLayer(lineLayer)
}

func animatePolyline() {
var currentCoordinates = [CLLocationCoordinate2D]()

// Start a timer that will add a new coordinate to the line and redraw it every time it repeats.
Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 0.10, repeats: true) { [weak self] timer in
guard let self = self else {
timer.invalidate()
return
}

if self.currentIndex > self.allCoordinates.count {
timer.invalidate()
return
}

self.currentIndex += 1

// Create a subarray of locations up to the current index.
currentCoordinates = Array(self.allCoordinates[0..<self.currentIndex - 1])

let updatedLine = Feature(geometry: LineString(currentCoordinates))
self.routeLineSource.data = .feature(updatedLine)
self.mapView.mapboxMap.updateGeoJSONSource(withId: self.sourceIdentifier,
geoJSON: .feature(updatedLine))
}
}

let allCoordinates = [
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.52214, longitude: -122.63748),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.52218, longitude: -122.64855),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.52219, longitude: -122.6545),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.52196, longitude: -122.65497),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.52104, longitude: -122.65631),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51935, longitude: -122.6578),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51848, longitude: -122.65867),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51293, longitude: -122.65872),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51295, longitude: -122.66576),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51252, longitude: -122.66745),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51244, longitude: -122.66813),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51385, longitude: -122.67359),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51406, longitude: -122.67415),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51484, longitude: -122.67481),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51532, longitude: -122.676),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.51668, longitude: -122.68106),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50934, longitude: -122.68503),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50858, longitude: -122.68546),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50783, longitude: -122.6852),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50714, longitude: -122.68424),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50585, longitude: -122.68433),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50521, longitude: -122.68429),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50445, longitude: -122.68456),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50371, longitude: -122.68538),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50311, longitude: -122.68653),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50292, longitude: -122.68731),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50253, longitude: -122.68742),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50239, longitude: -122.6867),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.5026, longitude: -122.68545),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50294, longitude: -122.68407),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50271, longitude: -122.68357),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.50055, longitude: -122.68236),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49994, longitude: -122.68233),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49955, longitude: -122.68267),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49919, longitude: -122.68257),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49842, longitude: -122.68376),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49821, longitude: -122.68428),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49798, longitude: -122.68573),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49805, longitude: -122.68923),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49857, longitude: -122.68926),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49911, longitude: -122.68814),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49921, longitude: -122.68865),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49905, longitude: -122.6897),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49917, longitude: -122.69346),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49902, longitude: -122.69404),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49796, longitude: -122.69438),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49697, longitude: -122.69504),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49661, longitude: -122.69624),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.4955, longitude: -122.69781),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49517, longitude: -122.69803),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49508, longitude: -122.69711),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.4948, longitude: -122.69688),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49368, longitude: -122.69744),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49311, longitude: -122.69702),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49294, longitude: -122.69665),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49212, longitude: -122.69788),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49264, longitude: -122.69771),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49332, longitude: -122.69835),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49334, longitude: -122.7007),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49358, longitude: -122.70167),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49401, longitude: -122.70215),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49439, longitude: -122.70229),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49566, longitude: -122.70185),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49635, longitude: -122.70215),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49674, longitude: -122.70346),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49758, longitude: -122.70517),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49736, longitude: -122.70614),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49736, longitude: -122.70663),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49767, longitude: -122.70807),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49798, longitude: -122.70807),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49798, longitude: -122.70717),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.4984, longitude: -122.70713),
CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 45.49893, longitude: -122.70774)
]
}
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