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

I had the same issue and the MapsInitializer trick didn't work for me.

The best solution to the problem, in my humble opinion, is to load by hand the Map Fragment as described from other users. It's not an hacky solution, you just have to deal yourself with the fragment instance

mMapFragment = MapFragment.newInstance();
fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.map_fragment_container, fragment, FRAGMENT_GOOGLEMAPS_TAG).commit();