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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

Chapter 9. Google Maps Intents

In the previous chapter, we learned how to work with Street View. In this chapter, we are going to work with Google Maps Intents. Instead of displaying maps and panoramas in our application, we are going to use the native Google Maps application to perform tasks. Let's discuss this in detail.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Need for Google Maps Intents

  • Define Intent requests

  • Display maps

  • Search locations

  • Using navigation

  • Display StreetViewPanorama