I have figured out how to draw circles and other overlays over a map. Recently, I looked at the Map program which comes on the emulator and it makes menus (with buttons) overlay onto the map.

Does anyone know how they does these types of overlays?

basically I had a same problem but I guess we dont have any good way to place buttons on canvas
So what I did was add the buttons on map activity and then later draw a transparent box on overlay

Theres got to be a way to do overlays like they did. Like how they have a placemark on the map and the a dialog box pops up ("California Pizza Kitchen" in the screen shot above).

if u see the pop up its just a rectangle with yah spoke that can be drawn
Also the text inside it is just canvas.drawText
Not the textview

If you fig out something better please do let me know here too

Thanks
RM

So they are using the map overlay class i guess.
http://code.google.com/android/referenc ... erlay.html

It would be nice if the source code for the Map application (which comes with android) is available.