Understanding fully interactive mode and lite mode

The Google Maps android API can static as light mode maps.

Adding Lite mode to Android Maps is similar to configuring the normal maps, because it will use the same classes and interfaces. We can set Google Maps to the Lite mode in the following two ways:

• As an XML attribute to your MapView or MapFrgament
• Using the GoogleMapOptions object

<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    map:cameraZoom="13"
    map:mapType="normal"
    map:liteMode="true"/>

Or, using the GoogleMapOptions object as follows:

GoogleMapOptions options = new GoogleMapOptions().liteMode(true);

Interactive mode allows the to use all the methods, including onCreate(), onDestroy(), onResume(), and onPause(), and all the...