Center Map and Add Marker with Google Map SDK Subview (Swift)

I'm having trouble getting a Google Map to center itself and add a marker when it's a subview connected as an IBOutlet. I have tried to get it work it feels like 20 different ways, but am stuck so would appreciate any help or guidance.

The code setup is pretty straightforward as follows:

//Map view outlet
@IBOutlet weak var googleMapView: GMSMapView!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

// Google Map View Setup
    let camera = GMSCameraPosition.cameraWithLatitude(-33.86, longitude: 151.20, zoom: 6)
    let mapView = GMSMapView.mapWithFrame(CGRectZero, camera: camera)
    mapView.myLocationEnabled = true

    self.googleMapView = mapView

    let marker = GMSMarker()
    marker.position = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(-33.86, 151.20)
    marker.title = "Sydney"
    marker.snippet = "Australia"
    marker.map = mapView

I can get it to work if the view is the entire View Controller by changing self.googleMapView to self.view, but I can't figure out how to get it connected properly to the googleMapView outlet. Thanks!

I tried using the help given for this similar question but it's not clearly answered because the outlet and the variable are both mapView and I couldn't get it to work.

Solution

Well of course after I asked the question to everyone here I had an epiphany and figured it out! I didn't need to create a new GMSMapView because that was already done with autolayout. I just needed to access the camera variable of the that GMSMapView Outlet to set the position.

Code below:

 // Google Map View Setup
    let camera = GMSCameraPosition.cameraWithLatitude(-33.86, longitude: 151.20, zoom: 6)
    self.googleMapView.myLocationEnabled = true

    self.googleMapView.camera = camera

    let marker = GMSMarker()
    marker.position = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(-33.86, 151.20)
    marker.title = "Sydney"
    marker.snippet = "Australia"
    marker.map = googleMapView