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indira
indira

Reputation: 6687

How to overlay text on the android map view

I have an application to show the MapView having both height and width fill_parent. I need to overlay some text on the top part of the Map View. How to do this?. The background of text should be transparent. Also the text has the property of marquee. Is it possible to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3821

Answers (3)

Hades
Hades

Reputation: 3936

Otherwise just use an itermized overlay to put the text in.

Upvotes: 0

Flo
Flo

Reputation: 27445

Use a RelativeLayout as the root container of you layout and add the MapView and a TextView to it (below the MapView in the layout xml file). Use the TextView to display the text which should be displayed above the map. Now you can use the attributes starting withlayout_ to place the TextView where you want it.

As far as I know, the marquee effect only works when the TextView is focused and its text value is too long to fit in the whole TextView.

The TextView's background should be transparent by default.

Upvotes: 4

Sakaroz
Sakaroz

Reputation: 56

Create a RelativeLayout as the container of your Mapview and a TextView

<RelativeLayout 
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  <MapView .../>
  <TextView />      </RelativeLayout>

You can display the TextView where you want with the RelativeLayout child attributes, for example on the textView : layout_alignParentBottom="true"

Upvotes: 1

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