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Learning Android Google Maps

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Learning Android Google Maps

Overview of this book

This book helps you to overcome the most common problems faced by users and helps you create a successful map application without any hassle. The book starts with a brief description of how to set up an environment and obtain an API key to create your map application. This book will teach you about adding markers, overlays, and information windows to the map in detail. You will then dive deep into customizing various types of maps and working with location data and Google Street view. By the end of this book, you will be able to create succinct map applications in Android using Google maps efficiently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Android Google Maps
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Android Studio


Android Studio is Google's official IDE to develop Android applications. It was introduced by Google in 2013 at their annual developer conference Google I/O. After over a year and a half of active development, Android Studio hit its official stable release 1.0 in December 2014. It was based on IntelliJ IDEA software. Let's see how it differs from Eclipse:

  • It provides a live layout editor with real-time rendering (WYSIWYG)

  • It uses the Gradle build system against the traditional Apache ant build system

  • It provides advanced code completion

  • It has inbuilt template-based wizards for common Android designs

  • It offers built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, which helps integrate Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and the App Engine seamlessly

  • It provides support for Android Wear

The following screenshot displays the typical Android Studio interface with the Dracula theme: