Android: using StreetView without starting an intent

Question

Hello all,

I'm working on a simple android app in which I want to, once the user has clicked a button on the main screen, display the streetview of known coordinates.

I can create display a map like so:

    mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapView);
    mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);

    mapController = mapView.getController();
    mapController.setZoom(6); // Zoom 1 is world view

    GeoPoint point = new GeoPoint(...);
    mapController.setCenter(point);
    mapController.animateTo(point);

Through this method, I could easily add my own buttons, overlays, etc over the map which my user could press to do certain actions based on their current location on the map.

I want to, instead of displaying a map, display a streetview with my own custom buttons displayed on top of it (along with the standard google ones). The only way I've found of displaying a streetview is as follows:

String uri = "google.streetview:cbll="+ latitude+","+longitude+"&cbp=1,99.56,,1,-5.27&mz=21";
Intent streetView = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse(uri));
startActivity(streetView);

Is there any way to start a streetview in a way through which it could be embedded into my application so that I could put buttons on top of the streetview which would allow my user to do certain actions based on their current location?

Many thanks in advance,

r3mo

Answer 1

Is there any way to start a streetview in a way through which it could be embedded into my application so that I could put buttons on top of the streetview which would allow my user to do certain actions based on their current location?

Not that I am aware of. MapView supports isStreetView() and setStreetView(), but I think that just draws the blue lines indicating where StreetView data is available.