show map as a widget in android

Question

i want to show live google map as a home widget over android screen , but the problem is android only allows following views to get displayed. and i want to make use of webview.

• AnalogClock
• Button
• Chronometer
• ImageButton
• ImageView
• ProgressBar
• TextView

So does any have another alternatives or some tricky solution to make the map appear as an widget

Answer 1

well, MapView extends View class, so you could try to create Bitmap from it, by calling getDrawingCache() metod.

but then again, I think that's against Google's TOS.