I have a very strange issue that has appeared with the Google Maps feature in my app.
The app available for download on the Play store will draw everything just fine. Rebuilding and installing the app fresh is where the problem is seen.
The odd thing is; the maps view draws, location pins are shown exactly as expected, the "Google" watermark is shown, my custom layers are showing correctly, and pinch and zoom works as expected (I can tell because I can move the layers and scale them).
Tiles are not drawing. I'm not seeing any road data, any terrain data, or any actual maps data. I'll attach screenshots.
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Okay, I am at a complete loss. I'm actually an iOS developer, so grasping this problem is a big challenge. I'm reading that there are Google maps v1, v2, and v3 (SDK iterations??). I would assume the most current version is v3. I created a new project, added a new API key, and got it to draw a basic map. The API version appears to be 11.0.4 in that test project. The important project I'm having problems with is pretty old. I inherited it. I don't know which version it's using (v1, v2, or v3). The dependency is version 8.4.0. The way the API key is set in the problem project is completely different than the new test project.
I do not know what I can do at this point. Can I simply change the way the API key is set in the old one? Is the old one even going to work at all, or will I have to re-implement the maps feature? Is there any way I can easily fix the current feature? Hoping for a miracle.
It looks like you have a problem with your Google API key. You can get more information here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8989312/1146533
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I'm looking to create a circle menu for markers in my app that uses Google maps.
I've found this online example of what I am trying to do:http://demo-ee.com/index.php/examples/view/circle-menu-for-marker-with-mx-google-maps-for-expressionengine#
The problem is that this is for google maps in a webview, I'm looking to do this on Android.
Does anyone know if this is possible to achieve with google maps for Android and if it is, how much work would be involved to do it?
Is it possible to rebuild this example code in java to use in an Android app?
thanks
I put this as an answer and not as a comment, but I don't think you can achieve the same.
First of all, on android you don't have the "hover" callback for maps, you can only use the onMarkerClick listener.
You could try to build a custom infowindow (there are a few tutorial online but never followed, so I can't give you a trusted one, you have to try :( ) and check if the iw can be placed around your item. Unfortunately on android there is a limited set of functionalities, but to be honest, I would explore a different UX for that (cards, dialogfragment or other).
Check how google maps behaves when clicking on a place (a view scrollable from bottom with details).
You can also think about using a toolbar/expandingtoolbar
On my Android App, I've got a map with a lot of markers.
But when the user is zooming out, it hard the see the differents markers.
So I want to regroup then in one when there are a two much markers.
Could you help me please ?
Thanks
Try one of the open source clustering libraries for Google Maps Android API v2: Android Maps Extensions (demo here) or Clusterkraf (demo here).
For who is having troubles with Clusterkraf (I can't make it work!) and for who can't use android-maps-extension cause it's shipped with a custom build of Play Services lib, I want to suggest this other library, that is tiny, well written and works out of the box:
Clusterer: https://github.com/mrmans0n/clusterer
After a whole morning spent trying using the other two libs, this one saved my day!
After plenty of searching, I haven't yet found a solution that works for me and I'm really hoping someone here could help me. First I'll explain my problem, and then I'll mention some of the approaches I've attempted/considered so far.
Basically, I'm developing an Android app where markers randomly appear around the user's location. The catch is, the markers need to be placed on streets only.
I've been working with Google Maps Android API V2 but I'm trying to work around using anything with "limitations" such as 'geocoding'.
I've considered using different map API's such as Nutiteq but I've had some trouble implementing them. It would be nice to stick to Google since I've become familiar with it but I'm willing to try any suggestions you may have.
I have even considered loading up Google Maps API V3 in an html file so that I can use GDirections to load a path from one point to itself and then parse this data to Google Maps Android API V2 using JS but turns out GDirections has a limit as well.
Anyone have any idea how I can go about doing this? Even if the solution is hacky, it's still something.
I'm fairly new to Android Development.
Funny what you want to achieve. You don't need to load API V3 html. You can use directions api directly: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?origin=51,19&destination=51,19&sensor=false
It still has limitations, but is was like 2000 or something a day a device. And you don't want to put more than 2000 markers on single user's screen, do you?
This is easy to parse, for example with Gson.
Over the past few days, I am trying to find a step - by - step tutorial to implement google places with the updated version of google maps (in eclipse for Android) with no success.
In the old tutorials I find , the map doesn't appear, because it is not updated in the v2.
Can anyone suggest a way to proceed? I feel lost with all the scattered information I get, and I don't have the experience to change the old examples by myself.
I want to make a simple app, that finds my current location and displays the cafes and restaurants, within 3Km distance. At this point I have tha map showing my location, and I need a tutorial to guide me into implementing Google Places from scratch.
Please help!
I'm actually making an app quite similar to yours! I haven't updated to v2 yet but from what I can tell, the only major difference in implementation is the use of a MapFragment as opposed to a MapActivity.
So you have the map up, yes? Then you should be able to make calls to Google Places the same way you did with the v1 Maps (since they're separate components and don't depend on each other). If Places is what's giving you trouble, I suggest following this tutorial: http://ddewaele.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-google-places-api.html. It's pretty good and only needs a couple of tweaks to get things up and running.
If you're still having trouble, post back and I might be able to help you out with some code.
i found this post helpful,i hope you will find it too,
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-sdk-working-with-google-maps-map-setup/
So, my question is somewhat of an odd request I think. I was an intermediate java programmer making android apps a couple years ago, but I quit for other things. Now I'm back with a new and (I think) somewhat bold idea and I need help.
I'm wanting to know if it is possible to utilize the google maps api to act as a base for another map that I layer over the top. Think of it as I'm changing the way the map looks and that's about it.
I'm wanting to create a mobile app that has a map with a new/different look than what the base and satellite views have for a set small area of the city. Think of it as something like taking any old image and slapping it over the top of the google map and still being able to navigate with it (obviously if it was a random picture you wouldn't be able to see where it was taking you, but in theory you could essentially create a new map).
Is this possible in both java and obj c?
As far ask I know, you can't add your own tile layer to the Google Maps API for Android. However, you can use osmdroid and add your own tiles. You could also use mapsforge for Android. It comes with it's own tool for creating custom map tiles.