New Novel Google Maps Android Api Arrives

The long rumoured update to the Google Maps Android API has arrived.

Last calendar month the Recrusive Penguin weblog did a lilliputian delving into the code of NianticLabs' Field Trip application for Android as well as discovered that it used an unpublished v2 of the Maps Android API. The bully word for Android developers is that the v2 API is forthwith available to developers.

The novel API uses vector-based maps that back upwards 2D as well as 3D views, as well as allow users to contention as well as rotate the map amongst uncomplicated gestures. The 3D views inwards the novel API tin hold upwards seen inwards activity inwards roughly other NianticLabs app, the pop Ingress place game (screenshot above).

The Google Geo Developers Blog reports that the updated API includes features offering:

• More dynamic as well as flexible UI designs for large hide Android devices, such equally tablets, using Android Fragments

• Adding to a greater extent than Google Maps layers inwards their apps including satellite, hybrid, terrain, traffic as well as forthwith indoor maps for many major airports as well as shopping centers

• The mightiness to practise markers as well as information windows amongst less code

The Trulia Real Estate android application is updating tomorrow to the novel API. The Trulia Blog has released roughly screenshots that bring out roughly of the novel designs that are possible amongst the Maps Android API v2.



Via: The Google Geo Developers Blog

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