Is there a way to implement rounded corners to a Mapfragment?

Question

I want to give the map a nice looking rounded corners as the two boxes below it have. I can\'t do it with the map fragment it self because there is not a background property

Answer 1

The easiest way is to wrap the map fragment inside a FrameLayout along with an ImageView. The Imageview would display a rounded rectangle on top of the map fragment. In its simplest form you will see the map fragment inside the rounded rectangle with its corners sticking out of the rounded rectangle because the map view itself is not rounded. To overcome this visual oddity simply apply a layout_margin value on map fragment. The value should be equal to the rectangle's border width.

The rectangle drawable is defined as an xml shape as below

Notice the stroke width of the rectangle is 3dp that is exactly the same value we applied to the layout_margin property of the map fragment. The result is a nicely round cornered map fragment as shown in the screenshot below