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

For me it was way slower than 1sec beause i was using:

mapFragment.getMap();

Then i changed to:

 mapFragment.getMapAsync(new OnMapReadyCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
            map = googleMap;
        }
 });

Using the getMapAsync() it won't block the ui, so your activity will load before the map. It's still slow, but at least you can show a loading message.