Learning Android Google Maps

Disabling/Enabling UI controls and gestures with XML attributes

Until now, we have learned how to disable UI controls and gestures programmatically using the UiSettings class. Now, let's take a look at how we can disable these UI controls using the XML attributes in our layout file.

Till this point, we've used the following layout code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment" />

To use the XML attributes, we need to add a namespace declaration:

xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

To disable the zoom controls, we can use ...