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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

Working with gestures

A map application created with the Google Maps API supports all the gestures supported by the Google Maps app. It is up to you to choose whether you need all the gestures or would like to disable some.

As with UI controls, we can enable/disable gestures from the UiSettings class.

The various gestures that are supported are as follows:

Zoom gestures
Scroll gestures
Tilt gestures
Rotate gestures

Let's discuss these gestures in detail.

Zoom gestures

There are four types of zoom gestures available. Let's discuss them in detail.

Double tap

This refers to double tapping on the surface of a map which increases the zoom level by 1 (that is, zoom in).

Two finger tap

This refers to a two finger tap on the surface of a map which decreases the zoom level by 1 (that is, zoom out).

Two finger pinch/stretch (pinch to zoom)

This refers to pinching the surface of a map with two fingers which decreases the zoom level (that is, zoom out).

This refers to stretching the surface of the map with two fingers...

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