Evaluating this weekend: do we have Google Maps?

[FrankR]

I'm really looking forward to evaluating this over the weekend.

Some of you will yell at me for saying this, but - I think this tool is underpriced.
The world needs an Android tool like this very badly. If it works, it's worth a whole lot more than the current price.

My question:
I'm not seeing an interface to the Android MapView. Do we have that here?
[very important requirement for us]

 

[Erel]

Thank you. A programming language needs a large users base. This is the reason for the current low price.

Google MapView is not supported yet. It will be in the future.

 

[bluedude]

Mapview

You can just use the WebView and do anything with Google you like. You can also even use the GEO URI Intent or Streetview.

I don't think there is a real need for a mapview because the webview does all. Otherwise you can run the Google Maps intent without a problem.

Cheers,

 

[FrankR]

There is a strong need for MapView. With WebView, I can do something ultrabasic like show the location of a single lat/long.

I need to be able to map many different custom points, with different colors, and different click behaviors. This is very common with mobile apps.

Looking forward to MapView support. Would gladly help in making it happen, if there was anything I could do.

 

[schimanski]

Good idea!

To realize that what you want, I'm still working on a osm-tilemap-viewer:

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-share-your-creations/7323-openstreetmap-tilemapviewer.html

But there is one problem with loading the new maptiles. The offline-function does work very good. When the online-function works, I can set markers in the map with the algorithmus from klaus and corwin42. I think, that is one way to build several interfaces for each form of marker and it can show inside your app with something like a panel, so that you don't need services to show the new gps-data.

What you can do is, looking at my code....:BangHead: I'm still working four days without any solution....

rgds

 

[StuartM]

There is a strong need for MapView.

Agreed, this is a killer for many applications.

With WebView, I can do something ultrabasic like show the location of a single lat/long.

I need to be able to map many different custom points, with different colors, and different click behaviors. This is very common with mobile apps.

Short term, I'm probably going to try building a "standard" API V3 (no key needed) map with a local HTML file (if that works) and a GeoRSS feed from a remote website. But it'll be the weekend before I get a chance to try it. I need to figure out some basics first.

 

[bluedude]

All that is possible using Webview and Google Maps. Sure, it will need to have a connection but in terms of functionality it is possible.

In the end Google's Android mapview does the same as the Google API.

The webview is using webkit so it even supports caching etc.