I was checking out the Google Maps Data API and I was wondering if I can follow their Java Development guide to use it on the Android platform? I want to display routes that I have created on Google Maps on the phone.
Ideally this would be through a MapView but if I need to do it a different way I could.
Thanks,
Rob
EDIT: I feel that my question is probably a little too open ended. I don't completely understand how the Google Data API works with Google Maps. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction but if anyone thinks that this is a bad question let me know so I can delete it.
Yes, you can, several android apps use the Maps Data API (My Tracks, for instance). However, you'll need to parse the KML returned from the maps data and then write code to add it to MapView manually.
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I am trying to make an app which tracks the path of the user. I wish to use the google maps API for this. I know there is a specific "tracking API" but that is deprecated now. I used the tutorial at http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-location-android but that only shows me my location. It doesn't show how to track.
I tried to use the google developers support documents, but its simply too confusing. I am a beginner, so if someone could just guide me I'd appreciate it. Kindly assume I know JUST the basics.
Anyone has a tutorial of making LBS applications like this? I want to make an application to determine the trajectory of the city's public transport me, but I did not find his examples everywhere, if you have please help me to develop it, thank you
It is a concept design of my application layout
To develop an android app which uses Google API's would be a combination of Google Maps API, Location Api, Direction API and also Places API(if you want to fetch the details of your source and destination). If you are developing this app for a special transit system in your city than you would specifically need their own set of API to populate your app data.
But if you want to develop something with free open source Google API you can first make use of the Google Play Services by first referring into your app project and then getting the API key, enabling the direction api "ON" in your developer console and writing code.
Please refer to this tutorial in order to get a better insight of the transit system app you want to develop. You can customize you app UI accordingly once you have the data coming in.
Here are the bunch of links from Google's official documentation regarding implementation of all API's.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/
Hope this would help!!
I want to show a google map of a place with custom markers for different places. I want to be able to edit these markers without updating the app. Best way to do this according to me is using Maps Engine layer in Maps api for android. I have tried searching but haven't gotten an answer.
If there is a better way to do what I am trying to achieve please suggest me that. Let me know if updating/adding markers is not possible without updating the app.
Yes you can pull maps engine data into your app via the API and populate markers on your map view.
Google give some great examples in the API docs # Maps Engine API docs
You could also roll a home brew solution and store your marker data on a server and have your application check for updates each run or daily.
I am looking to create an app where users can download a map to their phone before they go to a specific place (in case there is no 3G signal there) and then use GPS to take specific routes that will have been marked on the maps.
I have noticed GoogleMaps 5 has just been released that enables caching.
Is this something I would be able to use or can you not incorporate google maps 5 into another app.
I am very new to Android and am not quite sure what can and can't be done as yet so 'm sorry if
this is a really silly question?
Thanks for any help!
Bex
Is this something I would be able to use or can you not incorporate google maps 5 into another app.
Google Maps (the app) does not use the same Google Maps (the SDK add-on) that the rest of us use. Hence, right now, offline caching is not available to us.
You might consider looking at OpenStreetMap, which has some Android integration and supports offline maps.
Okay guys, I am developing an app on Android that uses the Google API to display a map on the screen. I have simple overlays that will display the location of Contacts that the user decides to track. I already know how to use the Mapping and retrieve my own location, but I need to know the best way to get other Users locations.
With the release of Google Latitude's API, this functionality was supposed to be made easy. I cannot find any tutorials or anything on how to implement the API.
Please: If you know any Tutorials or anything of the sort to teach me this, please let me know. Also, if this is not the most efficient way to go about this let me know.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Specs: Eclipse Galileo, Android SDK, Android APIs and Google API
Isn't this what the Google Latitude App already does?
http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html
There are also some docs here: http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/v1/getting_started.html
Personally, I'd start by experimenting with the REST API outside of Android to get a sense of how it works.