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surya
surya

Reputation: 1011

Bing Map for Android

we are planning to use bing maps for Android device. We are not using google maps as we have premium licences for Bing and hence we prefer to use that. But after few days of search I was not able to find any thing substantial about how to use bing maps in android phones. One option I tried was to use WebView and then display the bing maps but it was not as intuitive as what we could get if it was a MapView. So if is possible to get bing maps in the same way as we get the google maps in the MapView with default support for panning and zooming etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5737

Answers (2)

Alastair Aitchison
Alastair Aitchison

Reputation: 3532

Updates : bing map deprecated AndroidSDK

Rather than start coding from scratch now, I'd wait for the Bing Maps Android SDK from inknowledge (developed by Ricky Brundritt - one of the Bing Maps MVPs), due out later this month: http://www.inknowledge.co.uk/Products/BingMapsAndroidSDK.aspx

Edit: 15th March 2011 The Android Bing Maps SDK has now been released. You can download it from: http://bingmapsandroidsdk.codeplex.com/

Upvotes: 5

N J
N J

Reputation: 27505

Updates : I also wanted to include the bing map in my app but they have deprecated it in AndroidSDK

see this link for proper use of bing map

This project is now deprecated, use the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control to create cross platform applications

There is also a note on the official website

This SDK was designed to work with Android 2.x devices. Newer 3.x and 4.x Android devices have bugs in the WebViewer control which causes poor performance with this SDK. This SDK is built on top of the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control and as such can also be used to create web based application that work on Android devices. In addition it can also be used with PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com) if you want to create a native application. This is the recommended development route as this will allow all new functionality in Bing Maps v7 to become instantly available to your application.

Upvotes: 1

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