Mapview getLatitudeSpan and getLongitudeSpan not working

Question

Sometimes when trying to get the Latitude span or Longitude span of a mapview with getLatitudeSpan() and getLongitudeSpan() I get 0 and 360*1E6 respectively. This doesn\'t h

Answer 1

I have been messing around with this... and having a mapview in a tabbed activity... the values are not initialized until onResume()... I verified this by putting:

        final Handler mHandler = new Handler();
        mHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                latSpan = mapView.getLatitudeSpan();
                lngSpan = mapView.getLongitudeSpan();
                if ((latSpan == 0) && (lngSpan == 360000000)) {
                    count++;
                    System.out.println("here we go again! " + count);
                    mHandler.postDelayed(this, 100);
                }       
            }
        }, 100);

In Various locations... in onCreate() and onStart() it will go indefinitely (until I switch to that tab), in onResume() it gets correct values immediately.