Learning Android Google Maps

Integrate Google Maps with your Android application to offer feature-rich and interactive maps

About This Book

• Set up the development environment and obtain the Google API key to create your first map application
• Create a cutting edge Google maps application by implementing all the concepts learned
• A step-by-step tutorial guide that is full of pragmatic examples

Who This Book Is For

If you are an Android developer and want to integrate maps into your application, then this book is definitely for you. This book is intended for novice Android application developers who would like to get up and running with map rich applications using Google Maps. Some basic development experience would be helpful but it's not a mandate.

What You Will Learn

• Get to know about the basic development environment setup needed to create a successful map application
• Generate an SHA1 fingerprint, obtain an API key, and create a basic map application
• Detect different types of maps and implement them in your application
• Add information to your map such as markers, overlays, information windows, and shapes
• Explore the interaction with maps and work with gestures
• Change the different camera views in your map application
• Work with real-time GPS location data and implementing it in your application
• Apply Street View and integrate the StreetViewPanoroma fragment to your application
• Employ the native Google maps application to solve some of the tasks using intents
• Create a cutting edge Google maps application by implementing all the concepts learned

In Detail

This book helps you to overcome the most common problems faced by users and helps you create a successful map application without any hassle.

The book starts with a brief description of how to set up an environment and obtain an API key to create your map application. This book will teach you about adding markers, overlays, and information windows to the map in detail. You will then dive deep into customizing various types of maps and working with location data and Google Street view.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create succinct map applications in Android using Google maps efficiently.

Style and approach

The book is tailored for the reader with a fundamental approach to Android Google Maps providing a step-by-step introduction to Android Google Maps. It focuses on simple, easy-to-understand examples that are pragmatic and serve as useful basis for real-world applications. Different topics are approached in a bottom-up fashion, gradually going from the simplest foundations to the most advanced features.

整合 Google 地圖到您的 Android 應用程式，提供功能豐富且互動性強的地圖。

關於本書
- 設定開發環境並獲取 Google API 金鑰，以建立您的第一個地圖應用程式。
- 透過實踐範例，創建尖端的 Google 地圖應用程式。
- 提供充滿實用範例的逐步教學指南。

本書適合對象
- 如果您是 Android 開發人員，並希望將地圖整合到您的應用程式中，那麼本書絕對適合您。
- 本書適合初學者的 Android 應用程式開發人員，他們希望使用 Google 地圖來創建豐富的地圖應用程式。基本的開發經驗將有所幫助，但不是必需的。

您將學到什麼
- 了解建立成功的地圖應用程式所需的基本開發環境設置。
- 生成 SHA1 指紋，獲取 API 金鑰，並創建基本的地圖應用程式。
- 檢測不同類型的地圖並在應用程式中實現它們。
- 在地圖上添加標記、覆蓋物、信息窗口和形狀等信息。
- 探索與地圖的互動並使用手勢進行操作。
- 在地圖應用程式中更改不同的相機視圖。
- 使用實時 GPS 定位數據並在應用程式中實現它。
- 應用街景並將 StreetViewPanoroma 片段整合到您的應用程式中。
- 使用原生 Google 地圖應用程式通過意圖解決一些任務。
- 透過實踐範例，創建尖端的 Google 地圖應用程式。

詳細內容
本書幫助您克服使用者常遇到的最常見問題，並幫助您輕鬆創建成功的地圖應用程式。

本書首先簡要介紹如何設置環境並獲取 API 金鑰以創建地圖應用程式。本書將詳細教授您如何添加標記、覆蓋物和信息窗口到地圖中。然後，您將深入研究自定義各種類型的地圖，並處理位置數據和 Google 街景。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠高效地在 Android 上使用 Google 地圖創建簡潔的地圖應用程式。

風格和方法
本書針對對 Android Google 地圖具有基礎知識的讀者，提供了一個逐步介紹 Android Google 地圖的方法。重點放在簡單易懂的實例上，這些實例是實用的，可作為現實應用程式的有用基礎。不同的主題以自下而上的方式進行探討，從最簡單的基礎知識到最高級的功能。