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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

The importance of Android Google Maps


In this section, you will learn the importance of Android Google Maps. It helps to seamlessly integrate Maps with your Android application. It provides location data in a graphical form that enhances the user experience while helping you to create real-time, map-based applications similar to Waze and Uber. Google Maps is superior in comparison to all the other maps. You can display a label or marker over the map. You can provide turn-by-turn navigation and get directions between two locations. These are the some of the points that make Android Google Maps special.

An example of a map application

One of the great examples of a map-based application is Waze. It is a GPS-based, social map application and was developed by two Israeli software engineers. It was bought by Google in 2013 for an amazing 1.2 billion USD. Waze now has more than 50 million active users. Users who want to try Waze can download it from the following link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en