Monday, March 3, 2008

Android's MapView

Plotting a location using Google Maps and Android

xml layout:
{view class="com.google.android.maps.MapView"android:id="@+id/areamapview"android:layout_width="320px"android:layout_height="280px"/}

java code:

import these:
import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;
import com.google.android.maps.MapController;
import com.google.android.maps.Point;

creation:
areaMapView = (MapView)this.findViewById(R.id.areamapview);
areaMapView.toggleSatellite();
Point areaPoint = new Point((int)(41.832846978094*1000000),(int)(-87.83592939376831*1000000));
mc = areaMapView.getController();
mc.animateTo(areaPoint);
mc.zoomTo(16);

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