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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen some basic things that are required to kick start our app development. This will help us to avoid errors that may be due to some misconfigurations.

You have learned how to set up Android Studio and Eclipse on various platforms. Then, you have learned about the advantages of each IDE over the other, and how to create an AVD. You created a sample application. Finally, you learned about some additional stuff such as ADB and setting Java environment variables.

In the next chapter, we will see how to obtain the API key, SHA1 fingerprint and develop our first Maps application.