How to add text above a marker on Google Maps?

Question

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Answer 1

package com.labs;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Point;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.text.TextPaint;

import com.google.android.maps.GeoPoint;
import com.google.android.maps.ItemizedOverlay;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;
import com.google.android.maps.OverlayItem;

public class ResoucesOverlay extends ItemizedOverlay
{

    public ResoucesOverlay(Drawable defaultMarker)
    {
        /*Calling boundCenterBottom() on defaultMarker makes the marker image connect
          at its Bottom center to the latitude and longitude of this Overlay Item*/
        super(boundCenterBottom(defaultMarker));

        markerHeight = ((BitmapDrawable) defaultMarker).getBitmap().getHeight();

        /* This call to populate is important. Although this does not appear in the MapView tutorial
         * on Google's Android developer site, the mapview some times crashes without this call.
         */
        populate();
    }

    @Override
    protected OverlayItem createItem(int i)
    {
        return mOverlays.get(i);
    }

    @Override
    public int size()
    {
        return mOverlays.size();
    }

    @Override
    public void draw(android.graphics.Canvas canvas, MapView mapView,
            boolean shadow)
    {
        super.draw(canvas, mapView, shadow);

        // go through all OverlayItems and draw title for each of them
        for (OverlayItem item:mOverlays)
        {
            /* Converts latitude & longitude of this overlay item to coordinates on screen.
             * As we have called boundCenterBottom() in constructor, so these coordinates
             * will be of the bottom center position of the displayed marker.
             */
            GeoPoint point = item.getPoint();
            Point markerBottomCenterCoords = new Point();
            mapView.getProjection().toPixels(point, markerBottomCenterCoords);

            /* Find the width and height of the title*/
            TextPaint paintText = new TextPaint();
            Paint paintRect = new Paint();

            Rect rect = new Rect();
            paintText.setTextSize(FONT_SIZE);
            paintText.getTextBounds(item.getTitle(), 0, item.getTitle().length(), rect);

            rect.inset(-TITLE_MARGIN, -TITLE_MARGIN);
            rect.offsetTo(markerBottomCenterCoords.x - rect.width()/2, markerBottomCenterCoords.y - markerHeight - rect.height());

            paintText.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
            paintText.setTextSize(FONT_SIZE);
            paintText.setARGB(255, 255, 255, 255);
            paintRect.setARGB(130, 0, 0, 0);

            canvas.drawRoundRect( new RectF(rect), 2, 2, paintRect);
            canvas.drawText(item.getTitle(), rect.left + rect.width() / 2,
                    rect.bottom - TITLE_MARGIN, paintText);
        }
    }

    public void addOverlay(int latitude, int longitude, String title,
            String snippet)
    {
        OverlayItem item;

        GeoPoint geopoint = new GeoPoint(latitude, longitude);
        item = new OverlayItem(geopoint, title, snippet);
        mOverlays.add(item);
        populate();

    }

    public void addOverlay(OverlayItem overlayItem)
    {
        mOverlays.add(overlayItem);
        populate();
    }

    private int markerHeight;
    private ArrayList<OverlayItem> mOverlays = new ArrayList<OverlayItem>();

    private static final int FONT_SIZE = 12;
    private static final int TITLE_MARGIN = 3;
}