Custom Google Map Skin On Android?
Oct 30, 2011
I've been looking around a bit but didn't find exactly what I'm looking for. I would like to apply a custom skin instead of the default Google Map api on an Android app.
Is there any trivial way to do this? For example, swapping the colors of the streets from yellow to another color?
An example could be the way the game Life is Crime has its custom skin on the regular Google map.
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Another example, not Android related is this one:
Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard
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May 16, 2010
One of the posters on xda development has made a great tool for us to make our own custom keyboard skins.head over to the site,create an account and start playing. they're super simple and look great.
http://www.gimpsta.com/themer/htcime.php?themerstep=done
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Aug 21, 2010
Do you like the skins (Htc sense) that are on some Android phones, or do you like the base Android install?
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Mar 27, 2010
Does anybody know how to change the clock skin back to original after uninstalling a clock skin? When you uninstall a clock skin, it uninstalls but the skin remains.
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Jun 4, 2010
And how many people use a skin or case, or even screen protector. Personally, I won't leave the house without my otterbox commuter case on, I just feel like it would be for me to leave me house without clothes on, Dones't feel right.
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Jul 22, 2010
I created a custom map in Google Maps "My Maps". Now i want to show that map on an android device, but not just opening it as a web page but showing it using MapView or smth similar. I want to be able to center on a place I have marked on the map etc. My custom map is a map containing the location of all gas stations in a city.
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Jul 14, 2010
I am new to Android and so I may be missing some very basic things here. I am trying to host custom KML files on a server behind my firewall and display those KML files on the Android emulator. I started by writing a simple app that uses an Intent to display the overlay and pointing the app at geo:0,0?q=
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/KML_Samples.kml. This works in the emulator.
Next I downloaded that KML file and posted it on my web server (Apache 2.2 on Fedora). I added an AddType directive for the .kml extension and restarted HTTPD. When I point my simple app's Intent to my internally hosted KML file I get the error "The community map could not be displayed because it contains errors." I added some code to try and download the KML file independently of the KML so I could check the status line and the like:
final HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
final HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://mycompany.com/data/KML_Samples.kml");
try { final HttpResponse resp = client.execute(get);
android.util.Log.e("MapOverlays", resp.toString());
} catch (Throwable t) {
android.util.Log.e("MapOverlays", "Exception", t);
}
With a breakpoint on the first Log message line I can inspect the results:
statusline = "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
Content-Type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
Here's the Intent I'm using:
final Intent intent = new Intent(
android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("geo:0,0?q=http://mycompany.com/data/KML_Samples.kml"));
startActivity(intent);
So the two main questions are
What do I need to do to get KML loaded from a private server?
What tools are available (if any) to determine what is wrong with what I've done (something more informative than "The community map...")?
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Dec 12, 2009
I am trying to develop a Android Google Map application, which is basically Gmap with my own marker geo layer. Since android.com is banned in China, I have to search support from Google user groups. I have no idea which groups I should call for help, android group or google map group. Anyway here is my questions:
I am working on Android SDk1.5. I want to reproduce the floating buttons presented in android Google map, which stands for three buttons: ZoomControl (left), FocusChange (middle), and ListControl (right). (Pls check ref1. ) I checked some open source projects, if designer can place these controls in the layout.xml with relative layout, to place them over (on the top of) the mapview. It may solve some problem, however in the SDK1.5' add-on gmap jar, the getZoomControl is discarded. I can only setBuiltInZoomControl(true) to enable the builtin zoomcontrol. By default, the "BuiltIn" Zoom Control is placed at Bottom/Center. (Pls check ref 2.) I have no idea how to relocate the "BuiltIn" Zoom Control to the left as native GMAP does.
So: How to relocate the BuiltIn Zoom Control ? How to add addtional custom control (buttons/overlays) with BuiltInZoomControl ? What functions should be overriden for the detail implementaiton, Such as synhcorization with the visibility? I am appreciated if the answer can be offered with code snippet or references to any internet site.
Ref: 1) http://www.ennovation.org/pix/transit-android-google-maps.png 2) http://www.ennovation.org/pix/device005.png
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Jul 19, 2010
Can this kind of files (buttons) be used to create android applications, or you must use predefined buttons?
http://graphicriver.net/item/tabletphone-user-interface-professional-.
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Jan 7, 2010
tried searching everywhere, but I cant find anything.
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Aug 12, 2010
I was wondering how people navigate with multiple destinations. It seems that Google Navigation doesn't nativity support it. Ultimately, I want to take a route different than the default quickest route to avoid an intersection, and on other GPS's, I would add the detour as a way-point. If this feature isn't available, has anybody found a workaround?
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Nov 4, 2010
I've been stuck for ages now trying to implement threading or background image loading for a custom tile overlay class I've been working on. I'm pretty useless when it comes to Java so threading isn't something I've had any experience with. Basically I have extended an ItemizedOverlay and in the draw() method calculate the tiles I need to display over the standard google tiles then fetch those images with a URLConnection and using BitmapFactory decode them and draw them to the canvas at the correct position on the screen so that the images are on top of the google tiles with about 50% opacity (the custom tiles are cellphone network coverage png's which are used for our web app). I initially got this all working with the tiles loading in the correct places but hit issues with memory and "freezing" while panning so implemented some basic caching and memory management to only store the tiles that are displayed on the map in memory and when downloading a tile store it to SD card.
Then I figured the freezing while panning is due to the blocking nature of downloading the images so, have been trying to implement threading. I created a class that extends AsyncTask to download the images in the background and store them to SD, in the onPostExecute method I then try to draw all the tiles. But onPostExecute never seems to fire, now I know that the AsyncTask has to be called in the main ui thread so tried to debug the execution with Thread.currentThread().getId() calls through out the code. The thread Ids through out is 1 and then 10 for the doInBackground method for the AsyncTask. Now I'm not sure if 1 is the main UI thread or not. In the extended MapActivity class I have, the onCreate method's Thread.currentThread().getId() returns 1 but I'm not sure if the MapActivity class is executed in the main ui thread? Here Romain Guy mentions that the onPostExecute method should have @Override but when I do that eclipse flags it as an error
"The method onPostExecute(Boolean...) of type TileCache.ImageLoadTask must override or implement a supertype method"
So I guess something is wrong there but the only fix eclipse offers is to remove the @Override
So I guess with out post all my source code, the question's I have are:
Is the MapActivity onCreate method called in the main ui thread?
What does the @Override error mean? or why does it show that error
Does anyone have an example of a custom tile overlay implementation with background image loading and tile caching?
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Apr 29, 2009
Screens beeing always too small :) I am trying to use a skin without any keyboard.
I got it here: http://sacoskun.blogspot.com/2008/09/android-emulator-skin-without-ke...
I am copying the BILGICIFTLIGI-LAYOUT-P folder inside D:androidoolslibimagesskins (please note my system is on D:...)
When running the emulator, I get such message : [2009-04-29 13:30:30 - Emulator] emulator: ERROR: could not find directory for skin 'BILGICIFTLIGI-LAYOUT-P', please use a different name
I tried using the -skindir option and provided the full path : -skindir "d:AndroidToolslibimagesskins" -skin "BILGICIFTLIGI-LAYOUT-P" ...with no success.
If I use -skin HVGA, then it works....
I have tried on 2 different machines and I get the same result. I also tried renaming BILGICIFTLIGI-LAYOUT-P into NOKBD (short name) with no more success. I have btw first tried -skin BILGICIFTLIGI-LAYOUT-P (no ") with no success.
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Jun 19, 2010
I've searched the entire internet trying to find a way to take the pictures I've made for a Better Keyboard skin and convert them into an .apk file, but no luck.
I don't want to send them to someone to do it for me, because I like to test it every so often to see what needs to be worked on.
So if anyone could tell meskins (clock and weather) not change after selecting and applying them?,
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Aug 9, 2009
I tried to Google for it to no avail. I really need it to make some promos - any hint
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I been working on default skin before, if i change my skin to WVGA , my layout displays only in a portion of the skin and the rest of screen is black.
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Aug 27, 2010
I have Galaxy S, Launcher Pro (Free Version) & Beautiful Widgets (Paid)
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Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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