Drawing popup balloons above mapitems?

Droid123 · by **Droid123** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:18 pm

Does anyone know if there are any funtions in the Android Api's that can easily draw a Popup Balloon above a mapitem when the user creates an onTouch event on that particular item? Like in the Google Maps app.

Or do I have to draw a box myself on an overlay by using the Paint class?

Droid123 · by **Droid123** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:40 am

anyone?

merlin3000 · by **merlin3000** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:43 pm

I've found a nice tutorial with cool examples for some actions on a map, http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/u ... ps-android I think what you want is in the "Getting the Location that was touched".
It shows a popup with custom text over the mapview.

I hope this is what you mean since I'm a beginner myself.

Droid123 · by **Droid123** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:13 pm

merlin3000 wrote:I've found a nice tutorial with cool examples for some actions on a map, http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/u ... ps-android I think what you want is in the "Getting the Location that was touched".
It shows a popup with custom text over the mapview.

I hope this is what you mean since I'm a beginner myself.

Thanks for your reply!

I used that tutorial as well when I was first starting out. The "popup" that is display is called a "Toast", very usefull indeed, but I'm looking for something a bit different.
Now I'm looking for an easy way of drawing a popup balloon (like in the GoogleMaps app) of a location that is touched

serkan.dogantekin · by **serkan.dogantekin** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:41 am

As far as I know there is no predefined way to drawing baloons on map view, you have to handle it by yourself.

In one of my draft applications I defined a baloon layout for this purpose and used MapView.addView method to handle this situation, and it works fine (if you want I can share the source code through email)

serkan.dogantekin · by **serkan.dogantekin** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:39 am

May be this can help:

Android: Baloon Over MapView

Draffodx · by **Draffodx** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:01 am

I have done something like this :

Is that what your after?

serkan.dogantekin · by **serkan.dogantekin** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:05 am

The UI I mentioned is like this:

MrBuBBLs · by **MrBuBBLs** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:25 am

I found something on github seems quite interesting :
https://github.com/jgilfelt/android-mapviewballoons

scottt1 · by **scottt1** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:18 am

Yes, Google provide this option to developers, you just need to check Android guide for developers...

tonymail · by **tonymail** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:28 am

I also encountered this problem, hoping to find a better solution.

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