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Full screen maps and new marker features now available in the Google Maps Mobile APIs
Friday, September 20, 2013
This week we are pleased to announce updates for the
Google Maps Android API v2
and the
Google Maps SDK for iOS
. We’re listening to your feedback, adding features requests that you’ve starred more than 195 times on the
issue tracker
. This includes cross platform support for map padding, flat markers, and marker rotation, described in the video below:
Full screen maps with map padding
Want to add a translucent
Action Bar
overlay to your map in Android? Or use a full screen layout in iOS 7? Map padding makes it easy to create full screen maps with custom interface overlays. Google Maps UI controls and attribution will automatically be repositioned in the visible area, and changes to the map camera take padding into account, so you don’t need to do this yourself.
Full screen layout maps are more immersive on Android (left) and iOS 7 (right).
Give your markers a sense of direction
We’ve added a marker
rotation
property, to allow you to rotate a marker around it’s anchor point. The new
flat
property allows you make the marker lie flat on the map surface, rather than popping out to face the camera. These two new properties are especially useful for indicating compass directions when the map is rotated or tilted.
Marker animations come to iOS
Time to make your markers move! There are a few ways to
animate markers
on Android, and today we’re adding the ability to animate marker
position
and
rotation
on iOS using the Core Animation framework. Animation for these properties happens automatically, but this can be customized if you’d like something a little different, or turned off entirely. You can also animate the icon of your marker using the existing
images
and
duration
properties of
UIImage
.
Playback GPS routes using flat markers (left), or use animated marker icons (right, iOS only).
Platform specific updates
The latest version of the Google Maps SDK for iOS now officially supports iOS version 6 and above, adding support for iOS 7, and removing support for iOS 5.1. Those of you running maps on mathematically intensive applications will be glad to know we have added ARMv7s support (and we’re investigating ARMv8 as well). For the the full list of new features and bug fixes see the
Android
and
iOS
release notes.
We’re rapidly adding new features, so if you had your fingers and toes crossed for a feature that isn’t in this release, please let us know on the
issue tracker
. Lastly, if you have any technical questions that aren’t answered in the
developer documentation
, post them to the Google Maps
Developer Community
on Stack Overflow.
Posted by
Daniel Schramm
, Associate Product Manager, Google Maps Mobile APIs
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