Detect when MapController is ready

[NopMap]

I am trying to build a map that centers itself on a stream of coordinates received from the GPS. The coordinates are applied to the map with move(). This throws an exception when the map has not been rendered yet.
I am trying to determine the earliest point in time when the MapController is actually ready to process the move(). I would have assumed that the logical point was in onMapReady, but found the guidance that this is not so. Unfortunately the documentation does not hint at the correct way to do this.

Therefore the questions:

• how can I detect when the MapController is actually ready to work?
• is there a better way than move() to process a stream of locations?

[JaffaKetchup]

Hi @NopMap,
onMapReady is the correct way to do this. Sorry if the documentation is confusing, can you point me to where you found it?

[NopMap]

It says on this page:

MapController methods that change the position of the map should not be used directly (not as a result of another callback) in onMapReady - see issue #1507. This is an unsupported and usually unnecessary usecase.

This is true and also confirmed by the linked discussion. When I try it in onMapReady, I get an exception that the MapController can only be used after the map has been rendered for the first time.

But there is no even 'onFirstMapRender' that would allow to detect this condition.

[JaffaKetchup]

Ok, yeah so I can see how this could be worded better, but if you listen to a stream inside the callback, and only move when an event comes, then it's OK. That's what the part in brackets meant, but the double negative makes it confusing.