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Learning Android Google Maps

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698863
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Creating a custom application


We are now going to create a custom map application. When we tap anywhere on a map, a dialog is shown, which takes text for Title and Snippet for a marker as input. The marker is placed on the clicked location along with an information window.

We can add as many markers as we need and remove a marker by tapping on the information window. Let's proceed!

Our activity layout code is the same as the one we've used before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment" />

activity_maps.xml

Next, we need to create a custom dialog to add the marker. It has two EditText widgets and two button widgets. The EditText widgets are used to get the title and snippet text as input. One button is used to add the marker, the other is to cancel it...

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