MapView without MapActivity

Question

I am writing this android application where in I have many activities that extend the Activity class. I also need an activity that uses MapView to show the Map along with a

Answer 1

I don't think there is any way around this. A MapView will only work in a MapActivity and each MapActivity can only contain 1 MapView. I have run into similar problems when using a single Activity base class. Try moving some of the code from your base class into either static methods or into a composite design pattern to cut down on the amount of copied code. It should be possible to design your code so that only the onX methods need to be duplicated between your base Activity and your MapActivty.

Answer 2

Finally here comes the Google Maps API v2.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/MapFragment

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