Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third 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 34.9  Getting a GoogleMap (LocatrFragment.java)

public class LocatrFragment extends SupportMapFragment {
    ...
    private static final int REQUEST_LOCATION_PERMISSIONS = 0;

    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()) ...