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Guidelines for Android Google Maps v2

Open johnjohndoe opened this issue 11 years ago • 6 comments

I wonder if there is a guideline which helps when one want to design custom icons for Google Maps. Please feel free to add useful links if you can recommend any.

johnjohndoe avatar Sep 10 '13 11:09 johnjohndoe

Hi Tobias. I don't know much about this. I think there are some build-in pin icons in Google Maps lib, which can be used and customized.

petrnohejl avatar Feb 11 '14 17:02 petrnohejl

I believe this would still be an interesting topic. I hope somebody surfs along who knows more about this. To start with I point to BitmapDescriptorFactory which allows adding predefined markers with a limited selection of colors.

johnjohndoe avatar Feb 11 '14 17:02 johnjohndoe

OK. I reopen this issue. Let me know if you find some interesting info about it...

petrnohejl avatar Feb 11 '14 18:02 petrnohejl

I posted this discussion on Google+ to invite more people to the discussion.

johnjohndoe avatar Feb 12 '14 10:02 johnjohndoe

Hey guys, I'm not sure map icons are generic enough to be a good fit for what this project is all about. Anyway the icons mentioned by Tobias I simply took from markerclusterer javascript project here: https://code.google.com/p/google-maps-utility-library-v3/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fmarkerclusterer%2Fimages and it was only for demo app purposes. I never thought of using specific sizes and as you can notice all m1 to m5 images have different sizes. I don't even think they need to be of a size that makes them easily tappable, because the API doesn't seem to be using image size for touch area (call it a feature or a bug). Just my 3 cents ;)

mg6maciej avatar Feb 16 '14 11:02 mg6maciej