Android Question Custom buttons on google maps

Look here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/interactivity, under UI Controls:

Each UI control has a pre-determined position relative to the edge of the map. You can move the controls away from the top, bottom, left or right edge by adding padding to the GoogleMap object.

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Looks like you cannot get the default position of any UI controls but can set (or offset) the position.
GoogleMapsExtras supports the SetPadding method.

Martin.

Dario126 said:

On main activity I have google maps which have some default buttons (recenter, zoom, etc). When I put my standard button view it looks different. On photo is 'a' is 'statelistdrawable' and on b is 'defaultdrawable'.

How to achieve same look (white with border)?

How to position next to them (how to get position of original google maps buttons)?

Can default buttons be re positioned on another corner?

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Is there a way to overlay say a label on a Google Map? I'd like to be able to use it to update the user of ongoing events while he is looking at maps.

Have you tried to add the view over the map (just add it to the activity after you add the map)?

Erel said:

Have you tried to add the view over the map (just add it to the activity after you add the map)?

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Had not thought of that - haven't added views other than with the designer to this point. I'll give it a try. Thanks Erel!

Erel said:

Have you tried to add the view over the map (just add it to the activity after you add the map)?

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Well, I've tried to add a label to the Activity and to the MapPanel - no success with either - anyone have any ideas? The following is what I add in Activity_Create for the activity"\:

Dim lblDRate As Label
lblDRate.Initialize("")
lblDRate.TextSize = 10
lblDRate.TextColor = Colors.White
Activity.AddView(lblDRate,20dip, 10dip, 200dip, 40dip)
' MapPanel.AddView(lblDRate,20dip, 10dip, 200dip, 40dip)

Have you set the label text? Otherwise it will be transparent.

Erel said:

Have you set the label text? Otherwise it will be transparent.

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Yes, here's what I added in Activity_Create for the map module:

Dim lblDRate As Label
lblDRate.Initialize("")
lblDRate.TextSize = 10
lblDRate.TextColor = Colors.White
lblDRate.Text = "Test"
Activity.AddView(lblDRate,20dip, 10dip, 200dip, 40dip)
' MapPanel.AddView(lblDRate,20dip, 10dip, 200dip, 40dip)

I've tried adding to the Activity and to the MapPanel - w/o any success.


Update: once I added "lblDRate.Color = Colors.Yellow" to give it a background color, I saw it perfectly. Thanks for the help!