Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

Working with Your Map

Your SupportMapFragment creates a MapView, which is, in turn, a host for the object that does the real work: GoogleMap. So your first step is to acquire a reference to this master object. Do this by calling getMapAsync(OnMapReadyCallback).

Listing 32.12  Getting a GoogleMap (LocatrFragment.java)

public class LocatrFragment extends SupportMapFragment {
    private static final String TAG = "LocatrFragment";

    private GoogleApiClient mClient;
    private GoogleMap mMap; private Bitmap mMapImage; private GalleryItem mMapItem; private Location mCurrentLocation; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setHasOptionsMenu(true); mClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(getActivity()) ...