Google Maps API for Android

Maps API Brief introduction Maksim Golivkin www.androidaalto.org www.mobileguild.eu Twitter: MaksimGolivkin 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Plan Intro to Google Maps API MapView & MapActivity Overlays Distances Balloons Geocoding UI update with handlers 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Intro to maps API: New Project Target build and emulator have to use Google API for platform you have chosen. For instance, Google API for 1.6 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Intro to maps API : AndroidManifest.xml Things to remember: uses-library declaration for runtime permissions to access Internet, GPS and network location. 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

MapView: Layout If you use inappropriate API key, map won't be displayed. For one Google account you can generate several keys. How to generate your own key: http://code.google.com/android/add-ons/google-apis/mapkey.html 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

MapActivity onCreate 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays Each overlay is information layer on the map. Google Maps provides 3 overlay classes: Overlay - drawing complex figures on the map and capturing touch moves. ItemizedOverlay - abstract, extends Overlay, for drawing of multiple markers. MyLocationOverlay - drawing user location. 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: hierarchy 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: ItemizedOverlay #1 Most important thing: on every content change ItemizedOverlay, call protected populate method; include populate call in contructor Reference: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2035 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: ItemizedOverlay #2 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: ItemizedOverlay usage 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: MyLocationOverlay Convenient to display user location on map. Most important thing: call disableMyLocation, when activity goes to background. 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Overlays: MyLocationOverlay usage 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Distance Note: Google Maps API uses (int) micro-degrees for coordinates; Android Location package uses (double) degrees for coordinates; microdegrees = degrees * 1000 000; or microdegrees = degress * 1E6; degrees = microdegrees / (double)1E6; 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Distance calculation 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Balloons : usage 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Balloons Nice small existing library. Available at: https://github.com/jgilfelt/android- mapviewballoons 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Geocoding Geocoding - translating coordinates to address. Reverse geocoding - translating address from coordinates. GeoCoder class. Use GeoCoder in background thread! 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

UI update with Handler Nested anonymous classes are ugly! Alternative: Handler + Message + Bundle. Note: when updating UI, be sure to instantiate in UI thread. E.x. onCreate method. 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Example code can be found at: http://mobileguild.eu/FindHackatron.zip Thank you! 13.11.2010 Android Aalto Community

Google Maps API for Android

by Maksim Golivkin on Nov 13, 2010

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