android maps: How to Long Click a Map?

Question

How do I long click on a mapview so that a place marker appears at that point on the map?

I tried a couple ways without success:

1) Using setOnLongCl

Answer 1

If you're going with the delayed post/message to a handler (a solution I use myself), it can be useful to test if the map has moved, i.e. if mapView.getMapCenter(), mapView.getLatitudeSpan() and mapView.getLongitudeSpan() return the same as when the pointer went down.