Disabling/enabling the UI controls and gestures with the GoogleMapOptions object

Until now, we've added MapFragment directly in our layout and used the UiSettings class to change the controls. In Chapter 2, Configuring an API Key and Creating Our First Map Application, we learned how to add MapFragment dynamically in FrameLayout. Let's now discuss how to disable UI controls and gestures using the GoogleMapOptions object for a dynamically added fragment.

Our layout code is as follows:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal">
    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/content_frame"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

activity_maps.xml

Next, in MapsActivity, we are going to replace the contents of FrameLayout with MapFragment.

To construct MapFragment, we can...