Google Maps for Android
Made good progress on this today. I had fiddled with it a bit last year, but had not gotten around to it for a long time and expected all to be lost, but not so. This is roughly the learning approach that I used: Here is the Google page for location and maps. I worked along with the simple example and soon got it working. Make sure GPS is enabled on your emulator (if you are using one) - think this is the default, but you never know what the story will be with other emulator packages. Next is Hello, MapView. Same drill, work through it and bit by bit it gets ironed out. Then I reviewed the documentation on the Google API for Android. All of these classes concern maps, but there is supposed to be other stuff to the APIs. Not sure how this works out. Ok, maybe it was not that linear, a bit of scrambling all over the place at the beginning until I knew where I was. I am paranoid about leaving sensors and other juice gobblers running inadvertently, so I took some time to go t...