android-mapview

I'm trying to draw some text onto an MapView on Android. The drawing of the text goes fine, but it's very hard to read the text because it's white with no black border (like the rest of the text that appears naturally on MapViews to denote cities, states, and countries). I can't seem to figure how to draw the text with a black border. Anyone know how to do this? This is the sort of code I'm using right now (this is just example code, found in one of my overlays): @Override public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow) { Paint textPaint = new Paint(); textPaint.setARGB(255,

This is very, very strange. I've never seen anything like it. At the time I am took this screenshot, I'm not loading any overlays. First, I thought it was my internet connection where it couldn't download the tile information; but we have many users reporting the same issue who downloaded from the market. This just started happening like a week ago. Not sure why though. Anyone have a clue? Thanks! tdavisjr Ok. After starting from a clean project I found these two lines of code that was the culprit. mapView.setSatellite(true); mapView.setStreetView(true); They appeared back to back of each

I have been trying to geocode a string to get its coordinates but my program always crashes because when ever I try to use getFromLocationName() it returns null . I have been trying to fix this for hours but nothing is working. Here is my code public class MainActivity extends Activity { private GoogleMap mMap; List<Address> addresses; MarkerOptions miami; String myLocation = "Miami,Florida"; protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); if (mMap == null) { mMap = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager()

I'm trying to use the Google directions API to show directions on my mapview but I am having difficulties getting the data from the JSON response. I can get the "levels" and "points" strings but can't work out how to decode them to points on the map. Any help would be much appreciated. Kenny I have a class which can decode them for you, add the class below then call in your code like this: int[] decodedZoomLevels = PolylineDecoder.decodeZoomLevels(levels); GeoPoint[] gPts = PolylineDecoder.decodePoints(points, decodedZoomLevels.length); where points and levels are the data you've extracted

I want to set the map view zoomed to 1km radius but cant figure out how? The doc says that the zoom level 1 will map earths equator to 256 pixels. So how do I calculate which zoom level I need to set so that the map view shows area in 1KM radius? UPDATE: After reading a few blog posts I wrote the following code: private int calculateZoomLevel() { double equatorLength = 6378140; // in meters double widthInPixels = screenWidth; double metersPerPixel = equatorLength / 256; int zoomLevel = 1; while ((metersPerPixel * widthInPixels) > 2000) { metersPerPixel /= 2; ++zoomLevel; } Log.i("ADNAN", "zoom