On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Bret Foreman <bret.fore...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Well, you see, that's the thing. What I really want is a MapView > embedded in a larger Activity where one half the screen is a > (smallish) map and the other is an address and other details about the > particular location of a marker on the map. > You didn't answer the question, but I'm going to assume "no" =) MapView must be used inside a MapActivity. What you do besides that is up to you. > Think of how the pushpins work in Yelp when you mouse over them. Except you > don't want the text to appear on the map the way it does on Yelp because the > user's hand > obscures it. > Don't know about yelp, but pretty much all map-based apps (including my own) show a small popup directly on the map screen above the icon that was tapped. > My idea is that the user uses their left thumb to activate a pushpin and > the relevant text appears on the right-side panel in a TextView. Naturally, > right or left handedness would be a preferences setting. ;) > OK. That's perfectly doable with MapActivity. Just add the relevant view before or after the MapView and deal with it like any other activity. Although I would question the idea of using half the screen to the left or right for this. Most phones are held vertically, meaning they're longer from top to bottom than side-to-side. If you're going to split this narrow space in half, it's going to look really strange. Splitting the screen vertically would make more sense IMO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
