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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

What additional libraries/classes do we use


During the Google I/O, Google unveiled a new design library to help us easily implement the material design in our Android application. We use the Android design library to implement FAB in our application.

Additionally, we use SQLite to store marker details such as the position, color, address fetched, and name that the marker denotes.

We use shared preferences as well to store some temporary data.