Thanks for your reply... One question though...
How do you "stretch" the pin to enclose your complete String? I am enclosing peoples names within each pin and obviously some names are longer than others. Also is the pin png used by the Google Maps application available somewhere? Oh and being new to all this - I know how to draw a single drawable, but how would you draw a String of text inside a drawable? Thanks On Dec 12, 11:12 am, Charlie Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > You can draw whatever you want on top of the map with overlays. The > pin is the drawable though, not "instead of." Use the fancy pin as > your drawable if you want. OverlayItem works for ItemizedOverlay, if > you have a bunch of items to draw it's convenient. You can also just > draw your own stuff with your own Overlay. > > If you want the fancy pin and a text box like that *at the same time* > and not as a result of a tap or click, then you could make that entire > thing your drawable for OverlayItem. > > On the other hand, what is more common is standard pins and then some > more information in a box when the user taps a pin. I do this with > AlertDialogs and such (through ItemizedOverlays onTap), because the > boxes are already drawn and easy to use. But, you could just have > another overlay and draw the white rounded box with pointer and text > yourself - again you can "draw" anything in the draw method. (Draw > gives you a Canvas where you can draw lines, circlies, pictures, add > bitmaps, text, whatever you want.) > > On Dec 12, 5:55 am, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Anyone? > > > On Dec 12, 1:40 am, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Oh, and if its not possible - does anyone have any tips on how to > > > emulate such a map pin? > > > > On Dec 11, 11:29 pm, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Similar to > > > > this:http://www.webmonkey.com/mediawiki/images/Android_streetview.jpg > > > > > On Dec 11, 11:26 pm, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I want to know how to create a map "pin" such as the one used in the > > > > > Google Maps app, shown when you search for a particular address. The > > > > > white "balloon" which contains short String to denote what the pin is > > > > > representing. > > > > > > Instead of adding a drawable for my pin in an OverlayItem, I would > > > > > rather use the pin above and incluce my own short String. > > > > > > Is there an easy way to create this kind of pin or is it unique to the > > > > > Google Maps application? > > > > > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
