I am developing an Map app for storing waypoints/tracks. Can someone post a tutorial or code snippets for any of the
the following:

1) Adding an overlay of map controls (transparent image buttons) for zooming in and out as well as dragging the ma p
through gestures and updating the map view

2) Map a bunch of GeoPoints using ItemizedOverlay<OverlayItem> with markers showing the name of the points and order in which they were traveled. Possibly info window on touching the points showing certain information, e.g. description, time, altitude etc.

3) Drawing paths between geo points in a certain order

4) Drawing compass arrow from current location to a touched waypoint.

Thanks in advance.

Here's some code that I got working for #2 and some code for adding zoom controls provided by Android.
Don't forget to make your MapView clickable. That was the hardest part to figure out to make the MapView work.

In your MapActivity class

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Make myMapView the explicit view of this app
mMapView = new MapView(this, "YourApiKeyHere");

// add zoom controls
int y = 10;
int x = 10;
MapView.LayoutParams lp;
lp = new MapView.LayoutParams(MapView.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
MapView.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
x, y,
MapView.LayoutParams.TOP_LEFT);
View zoomControls = mMapView.getZoomControls();
mMapView.addView(zoomControls, lp);
mMapView.displayZoomControls(true);

// waypoints overlay

// Enable Sattelite-Mode, so we will see the
// Statue of liberty instantly on the screen
mMapView.setSatellite(true);

setContentView(mMapView);


Drawable marker = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.star_big_on);

marker.setBounds(0, 0, marker.getIntrinsicWidth(),
marker.getIntrinsicHeight());
mWaypointsOverlay = new WaypointsOverlay(this, marker);

List<Overlay> overlayList = mMapView.getOverlays();

overlayList.add(mWaypointsOverlay);
OverlayItem oi = mWaypointsOverlay.getItem(0);
mWaypointsOverlay.setFocus(oi);

//Get the controller, that is used for translation and zooming
MapController mc = mMapView.getController();
// Translate to the Statue of Liberty
mc.animateTo(oi.getPoint());
//Zoom Very close
mc.setZoom(21);
mMapView.setClickable(true);

mMapView.postInvalidate();

}

The WaypointsOverlay class is:

package com.google.maps.navigator;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.google.android.maps.GeoPoint;
import com.google.android.maps.ItemizedOverlay;
import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;
import com.google.android.maps.MapController;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;
import com.google.android.maps.OverlayItem;

public class WaypointsOverlay extends ItemizedOverlay<OverlayItem> {

private MapActivity mMapActivity;
private LocationDbAdapter mDbHelper;
private Drawable mMarker;
private ArrayList<OverlayItem> locationList;

public WaypointsOverlay(MapActivity mapActivity, Drawable defaultMarker) {
super(defaultMarker);
mMarker = defaultMarker;
mMapActivity = mapActivity;
mDbHelper = new LocationDbAdapter(mMapActivity);
mDbHelper.open();
locationList = new ArrayList<OverlayItem>();

refreshWaypoints();
// Create each of the overlay items included in this layer.
populate();
}


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

@Override
protected boolean onTap(int i) {
Toast.makeText(mMapActivity, locationList.get(i).getSnippet(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

return(true);
}

@Override
protected OverlayItem createItem(int index) {
OverlayItem oi = locationList.get(index);
return oi;
}

@Override
public int size() {
//Return the number of markers in the collection
int size = locationList.size();
return size;
}

private void refreshWaypoints() {
locationList.clear();
Cursor cursor = mDbHelper.fetchAllLocations();
mMapActivity.startManagingCursor(cursor);
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
String title = cursor.getString(cursor
.getColumnIndex(LocationDbAdapter.KEY_TITLE));
Double latitude = cursor.getDouble(cursor
.getColumnIndex(LocationDbAdapter.KEY_LAT))* 1E6;
Double longitude = cursor.getDouble(cursor
.getColumnIndex(LocationDbAdapter.KEY_LONG))* 1E6;
GeoPoint geopoint = new GeoPoint(latitude.intValue(), longitude.intValue());
OverlayItem oi = new OverlayItem(
geopoint,
title,
title
);
locationList.add(oi);
} while (cursor.moveToNext());
}
}

}

The mDbHelper instance is used to fetch a cursor that returns all the waypoints stored in SQLite3 database.

Hope this is useful to more people. Still looking for answers to #1, #3, and #4.

hi mehta_bhavesh,

I tried to load some points from a sqlite database but it doesn't work. I get an error message: The application ... has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. I read that i have to take a look on the log but since I am pretty new to android and java I don't understand that log...so maybe could you (or someone else) please held me to find the error(s)?

thx a lot

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.open(OSFileSystem.java:227)
E/GpsLocationProvider(   50):   at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStrea
m.java:76)
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ider.<init>(GpsLocationProvider.java:179)
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adProvidersNoSync(LocationManagerService.java:356)
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dProvidersNoSync(LocationManagerService.java:340)
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dProviders(LocationManagerService.java:333)
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alp.location/geoalp.location.Map} }
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n/.Map: pid=157 uid=10024 gids={3003}
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00 164:com.android.mms/10011}
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/DATA_Preferences
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000fe68)
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xception
E/AndroidRuntime(  157): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity Co
mponentInfo{geoalp.location/geoalp.location.Map}: java.lang.NullPointerException

E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActiv
ity(ActivityThread.java:2141)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivi
ty(ActivityThread.java:2157)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(Activi
tyThread.java:112)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(Ac
tivityThread.java:1581)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.ja
va:88)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThrea
d.java:3739)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native
Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:5
15)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndA
rgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:739)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(Zygot
eInit.java:497)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

E/AndroidRuntime(  157): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at geoalp.location.WaypointsOverlay.refreshWaypo
ints(WaypointsOverlay.java:63)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at geoalp.location.WaypointsOverlay.<init>(Waypo
intsOverlay.java:31)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at geoalp.location.Map.onCreate(Map.java:43)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCre
ate(Instrumentation.java:1122)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActiv
ity(ActivityThread.java:2104)
E/AndroidRuntime(  157):        ... 11 more
I/Process (   50): Sending signal. PID: 157 SIG: 3
D/PhoneApp(   86): [CallNotifier] onMwiChanged(): false
I/dalvikvm(  157): threadid=7: reacting to signal 3
D/PhoneApp(   86): [CallNotifier] onCfiChanged(): false
I/dalvikvm(  157): Wrote stack trace to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
D/TelephonyProvider(   86): Setting numeric '310260' to be the current operator
I/ActivityManager(   50): Start proc com.android.alarmclock for broadcast com.an
droid.alarmclock/.AlarmInitReceiver: pid=176 uid=10001 gids={}
I/ActivityManager(   50): Stopping service: com.android.mms/.transaction.SmsRece
iverService
I/jdwp    (  176): received file descriptor 10 from ADB
I/ActivityManager(   50): processNextBroadcast: waiting for ProcessRecord{434dd7
28 176:com.android.alarmclock/10001}
I/ARMAssembler(   50): generated scanline__00000077:03515104_00000000_00000000 [
27 ipp] (41 ins) at [0x2567a8:0x25684c] in 1370573 ns
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.alarmclock.AlarmProvider
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D/MobileDataStateTracker(   50): DNS server addresses are not known.
E/NetworkStateTracker(   50): net.tcp.buffersize.unknown not found in system pro
perties. Using defaults
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eption: /sys/kernel/ipv4/tcp_rmem_min
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): updateNetworkState available
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): NetworkThread out of wake loop
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): Requesting time from NTP server pool.ntp.org
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perties. Using defaults
E/NetworkStateTracker(   50): Can't set tcp buffer sizes:java.io.FileNotFoundExc
eption: /sys/kernel/ipv4/tcp_rmem_min
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): updateNetworkState available
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com.google.android.apps.maps/com.google.android.maps.ff.FriendFinderReceiver: pi
d=184 uid=10000 gids={3003}
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D/SntpClient(   50): clock offset: 11176 ms
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): calling native_inject_time: 1238236530849 referenc
e: 22116 certainty: 29
D/GpsLocationProvider(   50): NetworkThread wait for 14400000ms
I/jdwp    (  184): received file descriptor 10 from ADB
I/ActivityThread(  184): Publishing provider com.google.android.maps.SuggestionP
rovider: com.google.android.maps.provider.MapsSuggestionProvider
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ider: com.google.android.maps.ff.FriendsProvider
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ryProvider: com.google.android.maps.provider.SearchHistoryProvider
D/Maps.FriendFinder(  184): Starting FriendView service
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2001}
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wnloads.DownloadProvider
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rovider
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I/ActivityThread(  191): Publishing provider media: com.android.providers.media.
MediaProvider
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nloadService
I/ActivityManager(   50): Stopping service: com.android.mms/.transaction.Transac
tionService
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D/MediaScanner(  191):  prescan time: 387ms
D/MediaScanner(  191):     scan time: 79ms
D/MediaScanner(  191): postscan time: 1ms
D/MediaScanner(  191):    total time: 467ms
D/MediaScannerService(  191): done scanning volume internal
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annerService
I/ActivityManager(   50): Stopping service: com.android.providers.downloads/.Dow
nloadService
I/ActivityManager(   50): Stopping service: com.android.mms/.transaction.SmsRece
iverService
W/ActivityManager(   50): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
W/ActivityManager(   50): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{43469d88 {geoa
lp.location/geoalp.location.Map}}
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