Android Map Itemized Overlay

Question

In the android developer's webpage there's an example on how to show an alert dialog when the user taps on an item in the map.

What I want to do is show the default bubble the maps App shows when you tap on a POI.

Is there a way to do this? Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

Nope. You'll have to roll your own views with background ninepatches (or just use a decent looking default system one, like the Toast background drawable), and add a TextView (or whatever View you want) with that background to an overlay. It's a little silly that there's nothing built in for that since the "bubble with a bit of text" is a very common developer need, but it's actually really not that much work.

Answer 2

Yoni,

I would guess that, "It's actually really not that much work," only because you already know how. By any chance, could you post a code snippet for doing that? I'm not sure I would even know where to begin.

Thanks, R.