76.12 Handling Map Gesture Interaction

The Google Maps Android API is capable of responding to a number of different user interactions. These interactions can be used to change the area of the map displayed, the zoom level and even the angle of view (such that a 3D representation of the map area is displayed for certain cities).

76.12.1 Map Zooming Gestures

Support for gestures relating to zooming in and out of a map may be enabled or disabled using the setZoomGesturesEnabled() method of the UiSettings object associated with the GoogleMap instance. For example, the following code disables zoom gestures for our example map:

UiSettings mapSettings;

mapSettings = map.getUiSettings();

mapSettings.setZoomGesturesEnabled(false);

The same result can be achieved within an XML resource file by setting the map:uiZoomGestures property to true or false.

When enabled, zooming will occur when the user makes pinching gestures on the screen. Similarly, a double tap will zoom in...