Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

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The Cordova Google Maps plugin has many more features, such as the following:

• Showing an InfoWindow
• Adding a marker with multiple lines
• Modifying icons
• Text styling
• Base64-encoded icons
• Clicking on a marker
• Clicking on an InfoWindow
• Creating a draggable marker
• Dragging events
• Creating a flat marker

Since you cannot pop up a div on top of native Google Maps, the marker features are very handy. Some additional scenarios are as follows:

• Touch a marker and go to a page: You just need to listen to the GoogleMapsEvent.MARKER_CLICK event and do whatever is needed in the callback function.
• Show an avatar/profile image as a marker: The addMarker takes the Base64 image string. Thus, you can pass something like this in the argument ...