Building Mobile Apps with Google Maps Android API v2
Building Mobile Apps with Google Maps Android API v2
MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 3:50:16 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 661.8 MB
MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 3:50:16 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 661.8 MB
Maps make mobile apps more useful; they can help users find businesses and areas of interest, get directions, or gain insights into new communities. In this course, learn to add interactive maps to your Android apps with Google Maps Android API v2. David Gassner first shows you how to set up the tools, get an API key, and import and link to Google Play services. After an introduction to presenting simple maps with the MapView and MapFragment classes, the course describes how to set a map's initial state, switch between different map types, work with map markers, draw shapes, and work with zoom controls, the My Location button, and various user gestures. Finally, learn to add a map to an existing app and prepare it for distribution.
Note: An Android device with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or higher, and that has Google Play Store installed, is required to use the course exercises. (Kindle Fire and Nook devices do not qualify.) Finished mapping apps can be deployed on Android 2.2 (Froyo) or later.
Topics include:
- Setting up the developer tools
- Adding required permissions
- Getting a Google Maps API key
- Importing and linking the Google Play services
- Setting a map's initial state
- Geocoding an address
- Getting the current location programmatically
- Adding map markers
- Handling marker events
- Drawing lines, polygons, and circles
- Adding maps to existing apps