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Free Hand Drawing on Google's Map View

Recently, I got a chance to work on a project, where we needed to provide an ability to users of an iOS app to draw on Maps. Basically, we decided to go with Google Maps, because of its overall coverage and its popularity. Hence, we used  Google Maps SDK for iOS  and we wanted to implement "Free Hand Drawing on the Google Maps". To do so, I started searching around the internet for some good resources, but weren't able to find any good one that could just be used like Plug and Play. We had to do a lot of handling on our own and hence decided to write a blog post and a sample project just to make it useful for others, so that others in the same path don't struggle much like me. If you are only planning to draw a Polygon on the Map (As most of them do), then may be you don't have to read the entire post. Instead just follow these steps: (i) Copy & Paste these Folders into your project: "SARMapDrawView", "Categories" & "Models