How to move the Android Google Maps API Compass Position

Question

Does anyone know if you can change the compass position within the map?

All I can find is how to enable or disable it. But I need to move it down a bit so my overlay

Answer 1

Based on the answer of @Vignon (https://stackoverflow.com/a/38266867/2350644), here is a Kotlin code snippet to position the compass icon to the top right of the screen. You can also add custom margins (in this example the compass image has a marginTop of 50dp).

mapFragment?.view?.let { mapView ->
  mapView.findViewWithTag("GoogleMapMyLocationButton").parent?.let { parent ->
    val vg: ViewGroup = parent as ViewGroup
    vg.post {
      val mapCompass: View = parent.getChildAt(4)
      val rlp = RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(mapCompass.height, mapCompass.height)
      rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT, 0)
      rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP)
      rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT)
      rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM, 0)

      val topMargin = (50 * Resources.getSystem().displayMetrics.density).toInt()
      rlp.setMargins(0, topMargin, 0, 0)    
      mapCompass.layoutParams = rlp
    }
  }
 }