Comments on: Android Tutorial 2: “Hit” testing on a View (MapView)

By: Biosopher

Biosopher — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:23:16 +0000

Thanks Steve. Glad I could help.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:27 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting this tutorial, it helped me out more than any other mapview tutorial.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:08:01 +0000

hi,
thanks for your work…it is very nice.

and i am also face this problem ….and hava no idea
to do….so please tell if you are working out the prolem.

thanks again….

By: karthik

karthik — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:50:30 +0000

HI,
I need to pass some data from activity to the class which extends the Linear layout. In this case, how do i achieve that since Intent is working only between Activities to Activities.
My exact point would be like Data transfer happening between Tutorial2 Class to the Class which extends the Linear Layout..

ALso, is there any specific reason tht the new class which etends the LinearLayout was defined instead defining everything in the main Tutorial2 class which extends the MapActivity

By: Kevin Dorson

Kevin Dorson — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:00:49 +0000

HI,
This tutorial is very useful. I’m stuck in the next STEP
Could you someone please help me in creating an onclick event for the Gray color label which displays the place name to a seperate activity with the details of that place???
This is like the next step to this tutorial and I’m stuck here

By: Saturne

Saturne — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:56:05 +0000

and How can I draw triangle like this:

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2534/overlayb.jpg

Thanks

By: Saturne

Saturne — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:44:00 +0000

So Nice
thank
I have a question, what’s the differens between onTouchEvent() and onTap()?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:22:03 +0000

wow fast response. That worked, thanks so much!

By: Biosopher

Biosopher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:16:39 +0000

Hi Andrew,

You should use this:

MapLocationViewer mlv = (MapLocationViewer)this.findViewById(R.id.map_location_viewer);
MapView mp = mlv.getMapView();

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:44:04 +0000

Your tutorial is amazing. Thanks a lot! I just have one question though.

I noticed you have a getter for the mapview in your MapLocationViewer which looks to be a java layout. Is there a way to call that getter? I’ve tried using

mv = (MapView)this.findViewById(R.id.map_location_viewer);

in the MapActivity class but since MapLocationViewer is a linear layout, it throws an error because it’s not a MapView. I mainly wanted to get the MapView so I can move to the user’s current gps location. Thanks!