Anyone here used bing maps in an android app? I have tried the method at
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/sdk-native/getting-started-android/
But keep unable to resolve the credential_key. Tried on the bing maps forum and was not any help as all apear to only be interested in web based applications or mixed reality.
If anyone can point me in the direction where I can get more and good information. I do not want to use google maps
Please take a look at the Github samples for a reference on how to setup the project, and for sample code that demonstrates some basic scenarios.
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I started developing an app for which I am using HERE maps API.
Can someone tell me how to achieve map rotation during navigation?
Also how can a compass be integrated with the map accurately?
Also please how can I download maps for offline navigation, for users who don't have internet all the time?
Also please tell whether these features can be implemented with the standard HERE SDK?
Can someone tell me how to achieve map rotation during navigation?
Please use the road view APIs in NavigationManager. Alternatively, you can animate the map yourself using the NavigationManager#Listener interface callbacks
Also how can a compass be integrated with the map accurately.
Please google for some generic tutorials on Android sensor API integration. Once you get the bearing, you can set it with Map#setOrientation.
Also please how can i download maps for offline navigation, for users who don't have internet all the time.
Please see com.here.android.mpa.MapLoader. There is a section in our tutorials.
Also please tell whether these features can be implemented with the standard HERE sdk?
This is all supported with the "Premium" version of the SDK. The "Starter" edition does not have all these cool features.
In our app we do use the Google Maps API a lot. The app (web) is build in Jquery, CSS, HTML.
The app runs in the browser.
But we like to add the navigation functions like the Android Google Maps native in our webapp.
Is that possible with the Google Maps API or do we need to convert to native to realise
something like that?
I just wrote a long winded answer introducing the Directions service, luckily I re-read the question before answering...
No there is no Javascript equivalent of the android navigation services unless I'm very much mistaken. I imagine it would be possible to create a custom solution (I presume you want the route to update as you travel based on your gps coords etc) leveraging the route-parts returned from a directions request but this would be none trivial.
I would have thought the simplest solution would be to pass the start and end points of your route to the native maps app, however I am no expert at Android development (or interaction between a web app and a phone).
I want to integrate one of image search api for finding similar image like a google goggles do?
#Chrish -- Check this
http://www.technotalkative.com/android-google-image-search-api-example-json-parsing-web-api-call-demo/
visual search api for web and mobile here too: http://www.macroglossa.com/api.html. they provide custom services too.
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Google goggles API
IQ Engines offers an API that allows you to integrate image recognition into your mobile application. For more information see http://www.iqengines.com. If you sign up for a trial you get 1000 free visual scans and can download the iOS and Android SDKs. There's a Quick Start Guide http://www.iqengines.com/quickstart, API Documentation and README files for the SDKs that explain the process.
I'm looking for a platform for showing custom maps on android mobile phones and tablets.
It seems like Google's MapView is the most common (or the only?) maps platform for the Android, but my problem with it is that I can't use my own custom maps with it.
Is there any 3rd party custom maps platform for the Android? If not, can someone please try to lead me into a way to implement my own solution?
I need all the basic map features such as - Panning, zooming, layers.
I'm still very flexible with methods of how to implement my map data, so every suggestion counts!
Thanks!
OpenStreetMap supports offline and online maps. OSM API has all the features that Google Maps API has, same (almost) principles apply on OSM as they do on Google Maps.
For the #Spacedman answer, yes you can integrate the HTML that contains the js with OpenLayers in WebView
OpenLayers (mobile version) plus Javascript? Assuming you are making a mostly standalone app then I'm not sure about how well it all works running off local URLs instead of a web server, but I can't see any problems that can't be solved one way or another.
Can you tightly integrate it into Android apps? I don't know, I assume you need some kind of web page view part and send it to your HTML that uses OpenLayers javascript for the mapping...
We need a graphical component (view) for rendering maps from any WMS services for Android andn iOS. My researches only show that there is basically only the Google Maps API available as Android/iOS library (MapView).
Before programming a WMS view lib by ourselves, are there any (free or licensed) WMS view libraries for those OSses available, which can be used in own apps? We tried using OpenLayers in a WebView, which is not really satisfying from a performance point of view.
thanks for your help
I think this will fit your requirements:
https://confluence.prodevelop.es/display/GVMN/Home
From their homepage:
gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of free access maps based on tiles
(OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, ...), with a WMS, WMS-C
client, address and POI search, routes, hybrid location and many more
things. It runs with both on/off-line modes.
While it is packaged as an application rather than a library, the source is available (GPL) so you should be able to extract what you need:
https://confluence.prodevelop.es/display/GVMN/Android+Download
https://svn.prodevelop.es/public/gvsigmini/
I have tried using Osmdroid API for this, but still without success. This requires modifying several java classes as XYTileSource and BitmapTileSourceBase.
osmdroid - OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android
There are applications in the Android Market that can make this work perfectly as OruxMaps but not have an API for development. : (
Nutiteq SDK can do this. WMS sample works with EPSG:4326, but SDK supports also other projections and you can modify the map class to use those. Disclaimer: I'm the developer of it.
Update in 2016: updated links, removed obsolete 3 year old references
Look at OpenStreetMap. It provides maps for both iOS and Android
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
Api - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6
Hope, this helps you.
We are using the openlayers client. Yes I know it's a Web Client but you can use it in your WebView.
http://openlayers.org/
https://openlayersbook.github.io/ch10-openlayers-goes-mobile/example-01.html
I have a few apps with openlayers maps. Some of these uses online map servers and some uses tiles stored inside the app (offline maps).
For interactions with webView, we use JavaScriptInjections