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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

Implementing StreetViewPanoramaFragment


Until now, we have used MapFragment to integrate Google Maps with our application. However, to integrate street view with our application, we need to use StreetViewPanoramaFragment instead of MapFragment.

Add the following code to your main activity's layout file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.StreetViewPanoramaFragment" />

activity_maps.xml

The android:name attribute in the earlier fragment specifies the StreetViewPanoramaFragment class to instantiate the layout. The android:id attribute defines a unique ID for our fragment. This code only works for API 12 or greater (Honeycomb or later versions). To support lower versions of Android, you need to use SupportStreetViewPanoramaFragment.

Then, in our activity, we will...