I was wondering for quite some time now about the apparent detachment of the Maps API from the underlying system that the Google Maps app enjoys. Having loosely followed the updates to the Google Maps app on Android, it appears the Maps API is stuck in 2007 (save pinch-zoom). The biggest issue to me actually rakes back more than a year. I could not find an answer how to scale the Maps API "correctly" to the higher resolution devices. This means street names and labels are too small to be legible on devices like the Nexus One. Possibly there is no answer at this point. The only "option" that I have found is to set up the app to run in backwards "compatibility mode", which is hardly the answer. Receiving an update of the Maps API to the same vector-based system that the Google Maps app uses, would be a sweeping solution to that problem, and of course would offer the benefits and the hedonistic quality of the 3D-style view that we've seen released in Google Maps. It'll be interesting to see how long the developers using the Android Maps API will remain hanging high an dry, now that the disconnect to the underlying system of the Google Maps app is all too apparent.
On Dec 17, 4:31 am, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Will new map app features be available in mapview as well? > I'd really love to see rotation in it. > > Thanks > > Federico -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
