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Reputation: 8177

My location button event listener

I enabled the my-location layer of the Google Maps Android API v2, which adds the floating button to go to the user's current location. I need a way to detect a click on this button. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 34150

Answers (4)

CyberEd
CyberEd

Reputation: 875

Since this question was posted, Google has updated the API. They have added an onMyLocationButtonClick() listener.

To add the listener:

//add location button click listener
map.setOnMyLocationButtonClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnMyLocationButtonClickListener(){
    @Override
    public boolean onMyLocationButtonClick()
    {
        //TODO: Any custom actions
        return false;
    }
});

Returning false will essentially call the super method. Returning true will not.

Upvotes: 53

tony m
tony m

Reputation: 4789

The latest release of Google Maps android api V2 in August contains a listener method for clicks of my location button : onMyLocationButtonClick () This can be used to know when the user has clicked the button and returns true if the listener has consumed the event

Upvotes: 29

RasterOp
RasterOp

Reputation: 37

This is good to know as I was also wondering about this. Now, is there a way to know whether or not Google's location service is enabled so we can decide whether or not we want to enable the button or not? No sense having a button that doesn't do anything so the workaround (disabling that button always) seems to be the only option for now.

Upvotes: 0

balazsbalazs
balazsbalazs

Reputation: 4081

No, currently there is no way to get that information. There is a feature request raised for that and it is already Acknowledged by Google.

Star it if you want a quicker fix:

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=4789&q=apitype%3DAndroid2&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Introduced%20Fixed%20Summary%20Stars%20ApiType%20Internal

Workaround:

Disable the built-in control and create your own View and add it to the screen. Set an onClickListener to this button and animate the map to the map's location.

Disable the default control:

UiSettings.setMyLocationButtonEnabled(false)

Get my location from the map:

GoogleMap.getMyLocation()

Upvotes: 10

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