How to show both MarkerIcon and Title in google map as like Google Apps?

Question

When I find nearest restaurants in Google\'s Maps Android Application the restaurant name is showing near to marker icon as default. (Refer Google Image).

But in my

Answer 1

My approach to your situation would be to use Dynamic Icons from Google Maps.

It may be deprecated, but I am unaware of a better alternative at the moment. With this library you would be able to create pins with icons and letters inside, which I believe is exactly what you want.

For example, the following link

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chst=d_map_spin&chld=2.1|35|FFFF88|11|_|A|Balloon!

will create the following image

The library is extensive and has alot of options, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hope it helps!