android-maps

After updating Google Play Services to version 18, seems that GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException can't be used anymore. This piece of code: try { MapsInitializer.initialize(ctx); } catch (GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } generates this error: Unreachable catch block for GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException. This exception is never thrown from the try statement body How can I achieve the same result now? Thanks Now the function initialize() returns a ConnectionResult so you can do something like this: if (MapsInitializer.initialize(ctx) !=

How to mark my current location on google map? I am using google place API. I have to show all near places from my current position. All places are showing on google map, but how to show my current position? The code is given below: public class PoliceStationMapActivity extends FragmentActivity implements LocationListener { private ArrayList<Place> mArrayListPoliceStations; private GoogleMap mMap; private LocationManager locManager; private double latitude; private double longitude; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

I have an Activity that mostly consists of a large MapView. On top of that MapView, I have a couple of other Views that I'm attempting to interact with programmatically. My first problem occurred when I tried to use an AnimationListener to animate one of the Views on top of the MapView. The AnimationListener would not fire until I touched the MapView. This was fixed by ditching the AnimationListener and calling setVisibility() and other code sequentially. It's not ideal, but it works fine. My current problem occurs when trying to update a TextView that's on top of the MapView. I set the text,

Currently I'm working with google maps v2 in my android application and i've faced a problem of colour scheme customization of maps. I saw it's possible in web with javascript here https://developers.google.com/maps/customize and http://jsfiddle.net/SQvej/ some example in js var settingsItemsMap = { zoom: 12, center: new google.maps.LatLng(40.768516981, -73.96927308), zoomControlOptions: { style: google.maps.ZoomControlStyle.LARGE }, styles:[ { featureType: "water", stylers: [ { hue: "#F4B741"} ] }, { featureType: "road", stylers: [ { hue: "#ff0000" } ] } ], mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId

Hey I am trying to use Google Maps on my emulator even though I've installed Google Play Services library when I run the app it says This app won't run without Google Play Services which are missing from your phone on LogCat I get the warning about it but not really sure why I am getting this. my MainActivity.java package com.mapsmaps; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity; import android.view.Menu; import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap; import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment; public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {