As always, let's not start coding until we have a good idea about how we want our app to look. Thankfully, we really only have to focus on the map view. We've already covered the look and feel of our document manager in the previous project, and it's not changed much here. Furthermore, since a good portion of the view will actually be taken up by the interactive map provided by Google, there's not even a lot we have to do there.
Once again, get your pencil and paper out or your favorite graphics editor; we'll be using them to design our wireframe and then build out any of the assets we might need later on.
The following screenshot gives a final mockup of our map view:
At first glance, this appears like a pretty simple view—and it is—but don't let that fool you. There's a lot of power underneath!
Let's go over the various items:
The Back button will take the user back to the document management interface. For Android, of course...