Android :: Get MapView API In Droid?
Feb 17, 2010How to get MapView API in android?

How to get MapView API in android?
I had found a lot of stackoverflow post about save an Activity and the reload it.
My question: How can I have an Activity with an MapView and after reload the same mapview?
What is the best way to switch between activity and views?
I have a MapActivity that contains a MapView with some custom controls, state information, and an ItemizedOverlay composed by some locations that I draw using the default approach (using populate(), super.draw() and createItem()) and by some lines that I draw in the overrided draw() method.
So, when the activity is paused, I have to save:
Some state information
The ItemizedOverlay
[Maybe more Overlays in the future.]
I'm saving the state information as usual, putting them in the bundle. I'm thinking in doing the same with the Overlays, implementing Parcelablein each one of the OverlayItems and so, but I don't know if there is a better way to store the complete state of the MapViews.
The information depends on remote requests that I don't want to repeat each time the activity is paused. Any recommendation?
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I have been searching on the web and all tutorials talk about extending the Overlay and put your custom image on it.
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I have a MapView that I'm displaying a "useful radius" (think accuracy of coordinate) in. Using MapView's Projection's metersToEquatorPixels, which is admittedly just for equatorial distance) isn't giving me an accurate enough distance (in pixels). How would you compute this if you wanted to display a circle around your coordinate, given radius?
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I have subclassed Overlay as LandMarkOverlay (and implemented an onTap(GeoPoint) method).
In the main activity I do this:
setContentView(R.layout.main);
MapView mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
landmarkOverlay = new LandmarkOverlay();
//add the landmarkOverlay to the list
mapView.getOverlays().add(landmarkOverlay);
What else do I need to do so that when the user taps the screen, landmarkOverlay's onTap(GeoPoint) method gets called?
I have a DROID using Android 2.2
I am attempting to get the simplest MapActivity to run on the device. (NetBeans latest and greatest using a Google Api build target.)
I have all the appropriate Manifest entries, the simplest OnCreate --- > all it does is setContextView() to the xml with a mapview in it.
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here's my source code...
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Here is my source code. It should be very close to the google tutorial source code.
CODE:.............
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