android: MapView does not recognize clicks

Question

I simply want a mapview to recognize a click, in order to call another activity.

Until now, i tried the regular \"onClick\",that always worked for me in regular View

Answer 1

Add an Overlay in your map view and handle the OnTouchEvent. Try something like this:

public class MyMapActivity extends MapActivity {

class MapOverlay extends com.google.android.maps.Overlay
{       
    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent e, MapView mapView) 
    {   
        if (e.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {                
            GeoPoint p = mapView.getProjection().fromPixels(
                (int) e.getX(),
                (int) e.getY());
            MyMapActivity this.startActivityForResult(intent, requestCode);
        }                            
        return false;
    }        
}

      // MyMapActivity methods
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);

        MapOverlay mapOverlay = new MapOverlay();
        List listOfOverlays = mapView.getOverlays();
        listOfOverlays.clear();
        listOfOverlays.add(mapOverlay);
  }
}