android-maps-v2

According to the API documentation, only Circular shape Geofences allowed: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/Geofence.Builder And it's looks for example: https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.html But I have 4 locations, representing 4 corners of rectangle, and I want my Geofence to be that rectangle. I want to avoid solution of building my custom location monitoring service extending the functionality of monitoring Geofences, because I think this kind of services are CPU & power consuming... Thanks, You have to do it by

How to attach a flexible marker on map something like Uber and Lyft ? am using Google maps v2. Basically, i want to display a marker on map while the position of the marker is changed upon moving the map. edited: Ok i solved my problem. first : add an imageview to the same layout and position equal to center. second: to get the coordinate of the center of the map use the following approach 1- get viewgroup ( FrameLayout ) in my case where the map fragment is located. FrameLayout myContainer = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.content_frame); int mapHeight = myContainer.getHeight(); int mapWidth

Consider this as a wiki question. While I setup my project to support Map V2, There has been a step to add MAPS_RECEIVE permission. <permission android:name="com.example.mapdemo.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/> <uses-permission android:name="com.example.mapdemo.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/> Why we creating and consuming the permission from the app itself? Is that google play services app interact using this permission ? This permission can't takes care of these things? <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/> I

I'm trying to port my app to the brand new Google Maps API v2, but can't find how to change the size of the marker (some of my markers are smaller than default). In v1, I used a Drawable which I scaled with setBounds() before adding it to the map. But now, in v2, I can't use a Drawable . I've to use MarkerOptions().icon() , which takes just a BitmapDescriptor (generated with a BitmapDescriptorFactory ). Looking at the reference, there doesn't seem to be any support for setting or changing the BitmapDescriptor size. So, have I missed something, or is it just plain impossible to set the size for

Performance Enhancement: Previously I saved ALL images in drawable folder, this might be the reason why the map first loads slow, when draw the markers on screen, the image may not fit the screen size. Now I saved images in drawable-mdpi , drawable-hdpi and so on, the app works smoother than before. Hope it helps Original Question: I created a map in a fragment, the source code can be found below. The map fragment is sluggish when the first time it loads. If I go any other fragment and click the map fragment again, it loads fast and no slug anymore. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

I'm trying to implement new Android Google Maps API (v2). However it doesn't seem to go well with SlidingMenu . As you may know, MapFragment implementation is based on SurfaceView . The problem is that the SurfaceView doesn't like moving it around - I mean placing it in movable views: ViewPager , ScrollView , ListView , or the aforementioned SlidingMenu . When you move it, it leaves a black hole in the place where its pixels originally layed. It looks something like this . This problem can be partially solved by specifying a transparent background on the SurfaceView or even placing a

I'm developing an android app where some users opens the same activity from their devices. There is a map in this activity and as users opens this activity from their devices, their location coordinates is fetched from Firebase and a marker based on these coordinates is shown on the map. Here's my code: acceptingUserReference.child(requestID).child(key).addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() { @Override public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) { if (dataSnapshot.getValue() != null) { final Map<String, String> newAcceptedUser = (Map<String, String>) dataSnapshot