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user2623122
user2623122

Reputation:

How to re-position my location button in google mapv2 in android?

I am writing an application in android using Google map-V2 API. I want to over lay action bar just as in the Google map application. And I enabled "My Location " button. The problem now is that my location button is under the action bar. Is there any way to re-position this button. I want to make an app some what similar to Maps. I am new to android so please help.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 17430

Answers (6)

ayvazj
ayvazj

Reputation: 3983

Instead of the findViewById solutions, I used the findViewWithTag to get a reference to the button. Using a string seemed more readable and reliable to me.

    View myLocationButton = mMap.findViewWithTag("GoogleMapMyLocationButton");
    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rlp = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) myLocationButton.getLayoutParams();
    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP, 0);
    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM, RelativeLayout.TRUE);

Upvotes: 3

Priya Jagtap
Priya Jagtap

Reputation: 1023

I solved this problem in my map fragment by re positioning my location button to the right bottom corner of view using code below, here is my Maps Activity.java :-

add this lines of code in onCreate() method,

   SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
                .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
        mapView = mapFragment.getView();
        mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);

and here is onMapReady() code :-

  @Override
        public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
            mMap = googleMap;
            mMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);

            // Add a marker in Sydney and move the camera
            LatLng sydney = new LatLng(-34, 151);
            mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(sydney).title("Marker in Sydney"));
            mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(sydney));

            if (mapView != null &&
                    mapView.findViewById(Integer.parseInt("1")) != null) {
                // Get the button view
                View locationButton = ((View) mapView.findViewById(Integer.parseInt("1")).getParent()).findViewById(Integer.parseInt("2"));
                // and next place it, on bottom right (as Google Maps app)
                RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)
                        locationButton.getLayoutParams();
                // position on right bottom
                layoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP, 0);
                layoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM, RelativeLayout.TRUE);
                layoutParams.setMargins(0, 0, 30, 30);
            }

        }

I hope, this will solve your problem. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Ramkailash
Ramkailash

Reputation: 1850

You can reposition your location button easily

View plusMinusButton = suppormanagerObj.getView().findViewById(1);
View locationButton = suppormanagerObj.getView().findViewById(2);

// and next place it, for exemple, on bottom right (as Google Maps app)
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rlp = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)     locationButton.getLayoutParams();
// position on right bottom
rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP, 0);
rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM, RelativeLayout.TRUE);

Chage LocationButton you can also set padding after setting alignment of the location button

mMap.setPadding(0, 0, 30, 105);

Upvotes: 9

Ascot Harris
Ascot Harris

Reputation: 914

Just use GoogleMap.setPadding(left, top, right, bottom), which allows you to indicate parts of the map that may be obscured by other views. Setting padding re-positions the standard map controls, and camera updates will use the padded region.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/map#map_padding

Upvotes: 2

CoPLaS
CoPLaS

Reputation: 1727

You can set padding to the map.

This solved the problem - overlays over the map on the top (I used 48 dips, but you can overlay action bar and then get actual height of it (?android:attr/actionBarSize))

mapFragment.getMap().setPadding(0, dpToPx(48), 0, 0);

(DP to PX function is from this SO answer)

Upvotes: 14

Steve Benett
Steve Benett

Reputation: 12933

You can not alter the MyLocationButton in any way, but enable and disable it. There is already a request for this.

Feel free to disable the button and just implement your own one.

You would have something like this:

mMap.getUiSettings().setMyLocationButtonEnabled(false);

Upvotes: 8

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