Flutter – Drag marker and get new position

The issue concerning the error when displaying the map widget while getting the user current location is that, getting the user's actual current location is an asynchronous operation and thus the during that whole process initial position will be null thus we make a conditional that runs as we wait for the async operation to complete then display the map when then the value will be non-null. I have refactored the code and used the geolocator package instead

import 'package:flutter/cupertino.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:geolocator/geolocator.dart';
import 'package:google_maps_flutter/google_maps_flutter.dart';

class Map extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MapState createState() => _MapState();
}

class _MapState extends State<Map> {
  Completer<GoogleMapController> controller1;

  //static LatLng _center = LatLng(-15.4630239974464, 28.363397732282127);
  static LatLng _initialPosition;
  final Set<Marker> _markers = {};
  static  LatLng _lastMapPosition = _initialPosition;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _getUserLocation();
  }
  void _getUserLocation() async {
    Position position = await Geolocator().getCurrentPosition(desiredAccuracy: LocationAccuracy.high);
    List<Placemark> placemark = await Geolocator().placemarkFromCoordinates(position.latitude, position.longitude);
    setState(() {
      _initialPosition = LatLng(position.latitude, position.longitude);
      print('${placemark[0].name}');
    });
  }


  _onMapCreated(GoogleMapController controller) {
    setState(() {
      controller1.complete(controller);
    });
  }

  MapType _currentMapType = MapType.normal;

  void _onMapTypeButtonPressed() {
    setState(() {
      _currentMapType = _currentMapType == MapType.normal
          ? MapType.satellite
          : MapType.normal;
    });
  }

  _onCameraMove(CameraPosition position) {
    _lastMapPosition = position.target;
  }

  _onAddMarkerButtonPressed() {
    setState(() {
      _markers.add(
          Marker(
              markerId: MarkerId(_lastMapPosition.toString()),
              position: _lastMapPosition,
              infoWindow: InfoWindow(
                  title: "Pizza Parlour",
                  snippet: "This is a snippet",
                  onTap: (){
                  }
              ),
              onTap: (){
              },

              icon: BitmapDescriptor.defaultMarker));
    });
  }
  Widget mapButton(Function function, Icon icon, Color color) {
    return RawMaterialButton(
      onPressed: function,
      child: icon,
      shape: new CircleBorder(),
      elevation: 2.0,
      fillColor: color,
      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(7.0),
    );
  }
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: _initialPosition == null ? Container(child: Center(child:Text('loading map..', style: TextStyle(fontFamily: 'Avenir-Medium', color: Colors.grey[400]),),),) : Container(
        child: Stack(children: <Widget>[
          GoogleMap(
            markers: _markers,

            mapType: _currentMapType,
            initialCameraPosition: CameraPosition(
              target: _initialPosition,
              zoom: 14.4746,
            ),
            onMapCreated: _onMapCreated,
            zoomGesturesEnabled: true,
            onCameraMove: _onCameraMove,
            myLocationEnabled: true,
            compassEnabled: true,
            myLocationButtonEnabled: false,

          ),
          Align(
            alignment: Alignment.topRight,
            child: Container(
                margin: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(0.0, 50.0, 0.0, 0.0),
                child: Column(
                  children: <Widget>[
                    mapButton(_onAddMarkerButtonPressed,
                        Icon(
                            Icons.add_location
                        ), Colors.blue),
                    mapButton(
                        _onMapTypeButtonPressed,
                        Icon(
                          IconData(0xf473,
                              fontFamily: CupertinoIcons.iconFont,
                              fontPackage: CupertinoIcons.iconFontPackage),
                        ),
                        Colors.green),
                  ],
                )),
          )
        ]),
      ),
    );
  }
}