Connfa and Open Event Android app provide the facility to see the locations on Google map by displaying the marker on places where the sessions will be taking place. As there are many sessions in a conference we need to display marker for each location. In this blog, we learn how to display multiple markers on a map using Google map API with the reference of Connfa app.
First, you need to set up the Google map API in your app. Find the detailed tutorial for that here where you can follow to get an API key and you’ll need a Gmail account for that. Then you can define a fragment like this in your XML layout where the map will appear.
<FrameLayout android:id="@+id/fragmentHolder" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_below="@+id/layoutInfo" android:background="@android:color/white" />
Now you can define the in the fragment to make map in this FrameLayout named “fragmentHolder”,
private void replaceMapFragment() { CustomMapFragment mapFragment = CustomMapFragment.newInstance(LocationFragment.this); LocationFragment .this.getChildFragmentManager() .beginTransaction() .replace(R.id.fragmentHolder, mapFragment) .commitAllowingStateLoss(); }
We receive the data about locations in a List containing longitude, latitude, name and room number of the locations. Find the sample result in Open Event format. Here is how we fill in the locations,
for (int i = 0; i < locations.size(); i++) { Location location = locations.get(i); LatLng position = new LatLng(location.getLat(), location.getLon()); mGoogleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(position)); if (i == 0) { CameraPosition camPos = new CameraPosition(position, ZOOM_LEVEL, TILT_LEVEL, BEARING_LEVEL); mGoogleMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newCameraPosition(camPos)); fillTextViews(location); } }
The CameraPostition defines the properties like Zoom level which can be adjusted by changing the parameters. You can define the like this,
private static final int ZOOM_LEVEL = 15; private static final int TILT_LEVEL = 0; private static final int BEARING_LEVEL = 0;
Find the complete implementation here. Here is the screenshot for the final result.
References:
- Google Map APIs Documentation – https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/map-with-marker