I've almost got my app finished but I've noticed a shadow around some of my larger markers,
my overlay item looks like this :-

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if (festieid ==6){
    List<Overlay> mapOverlays = mapView.getOverlays();
   // Drawable drawable = this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.glastomap);
   
    this.readingmap = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.readingmap);
        this.readingmap.setBounds(0, 75, this.readingmap.getIntrinsicWidth(), this.readingmap
            .getIntrinsicHeight());


       String coordinates[] = {"51.465906", "-0.998769"};
           double lat = Double.parseDouble(coordinates[0]);
           double lng = Double.parseDouble(coordinates[1]);
   
           p = new GeoPoint(
               (int) (lat * 1E6),
               (int) (lng * 1E6));
     
       
       
    SiteItemizedOverlay itemizedoverlay = new SiteItemizedOverlay(readingmap);

    //GeoPoint point = new GeoPoint(51465906,  0.0);
    OverlayItem overlayitem = new OverlayItem(p, "Reading", "Reading Carling");
   
    itemizedoverlay.addOverlay(overlayitem);
    mapOverlays.add(itemizedoverlay);
   
   
        mapController.animateTo(p);

};

This works fine but the shadow really annoys me (I never wanted the shadow, it put it on automatically!).
Is there any way of turning it off?

cheers guyz!

Hello,

Try to create a subclass with ItemizedOverlay

http://code.google.com/intl/fr/android/ ... erlay.html

For the draw method do this :

public void draw(android.graphics.Canvas canvas,
MapView mapView,
boolean shadow) {

super.draw(canvas, mapView, false);

}

Cool, this worked perfectly!

I created this class public class mapOverlays extends ItemizedOverlay but I get this notice that it should be parameterized. Do you know something about it?

What notice ?

This one:

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ItemizedOverlay is a raw type. References to generic type ItemizedOverlay<Item> should be parameterized

I will check in my code and i will reply to you.

class MyMapOverlay extends ItemizedOverlay<MyMapItem> {
...
}
This is what it means.
And you will need to create MyMapItem and use only its instances in overlay.

Do you have an example of a ''MyMapItem'' to see how that goes? Thank you

public class MyMapItem extends OverlayItem {
public MyMapItem(GeoPoint point, String title, String snippet) {
super(point, title, snippet);
}
}
In this simple case this class plays a role of "categorizer". Generally you can put any business logic here, override methods of OverlayItem and make some special handling of your overlay items of this specific type. (if your app requires this)

Hmm, I still can't get the shadow removed. I'm subclassing ItemizedOverlay as per the example and calling onDraw as follows:

public boolean OnDraw(Canvas canvas,MapView mapView, boolean shadow){

super.draw(canvas, mapView, false);
return true;
}

Any ideas?

I don't see the class ItemizedOverlay having a method called OnDraw. Try to override draw instead as in the following snippet. This worked for me.

@Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow){
super.draw(canvas, mapView, false);
}

Sorry for a slight bump, but using the above code is actually wrong. This will result in the same overlay being drawn TWICE. This is because draw is called once to draw the shadow and then again to draw the regular overlay. The correct code should be:

@Override
public void draw( Canvas c, MapView m, boolean shadow ) {
if ( shadow )
return;

super.draw( c, m, shadow );
}

You can simply add this to your ItemizedOverlay class:

@Override
public void draw( Canvas c, MapView m, boolean shadow ) {
super.draw( c, m, false );
}

I was looking for this one & its work like a charm.
Thank you so much.

For technical reasons, I wish to remove shadow behind markers. I found a lot of time this question in the group, without "true answer". Thank you for you suggestions, cell phone spywareis much of help!