You're reading from Learning Android Google Maps Integrate Google Maps with your Android application to offer feature-rich and interactive maps

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849698863

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring an API Key and Creating Our First Map Application

3. Working with Different Map Types

4. Adding Information to Maps

5. Interacting with a Map

6. Working with Custom Views

7. Working with Location Data

8. Know about the Street View

9. Google Maps Intents

10. Creating a Custom Map Application

A. Answers to Self-test Questions

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen some basic things that are required to kick start our app development. This will help us to avoid errors that may be due to some misconfigurations.

You have learned how to set up Android Studio and Eclipse on various platforms. Then, you have learned about the advantages of each IDE over the other, and how to create an AVD. You created a sample application. Finally, you learned about some additional stuff such as ADB and setting Java environment variables.

In the next chapter, we will see how to obtain the API key, SHA1 fingerprint and develop our first Maps application.