First launch of Activity with Google Maps is very slow

Question

I want to have SupportMapFragment in one of my Activity. I add this fragment directly to layout xml and this layout set as content view. But when Activity is launched for th

Answer 1

Ok so I just had the same issue and think, after viewing this question, that there is no 'nice' solution.

My current hack is to delay adding the fragment, giving the Activity a chance to render everything else before adding the map.

Now, I am embedding the map as a childfragment, so my code looks like this:

    // inside onCreateView
    new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

        @Override
        public void run() {
            if (isAdded()) {
                FragmentManager fm = getChildFragmentManager();
                GoogleMapFragment mapFragment = GoogleMapFragment
                        .newInstance();
                fm.beginTransaction()
                        .replace(R.id.mapContainer, mapFragment).commit();
            }
        }
    }, 1000);

if adding directly to Activity it might look like this:

    // inside onCreate
    new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

        @Override
        public void run() {
            if (!isFinishing()) {
                FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager();
                GoogleMapFragment mapFragment = GoogleMapFragment
                        .newInstance();
                fm.beginTransaction()
                        .replace(R.id.mapContainer, mapFragment).commit();
            }
        }
    }, 1000);

Nevertheless, a check inside the Runnable is needed to ensure that we are not trying to add the map to some non-existing Activity or Fragment.

I am not a fan of hardcoded delays like this, so will return if I come up with something better. 1 second should be plenty though and could probably be even less.