Missed tiles on Android google maps

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I work on a fishing app that needs to handle many locations in the middle of the water. I noticed that after zoom 13, only in Android, most of the locations in the water does not return a tile and I see a blank space instead (satellite map)

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This is not random but consistent, zoom level greater than 13 return just empty, this does not happen in iOS.

In some locations, even a zoom level of 11 returns empty. I'm ok to use a smaller zoom level in the middle of the water, but the thing is that I don't know when the map is going to return empty.

I have read that google map does not have a full coverage of the world so empty tiles could be expected.

Two questions:

  • Why this is happening Android only (maps version 16.0.0)?
  • How can I detect missed tiles so I can react in consecuence?
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