Display toolbar for Google Maps marker automatical

Question

I have a marker and when I open the map it shows the marker. When I click on it it shows the title and a toolbar which includes two buttons on the bottom right of the map which let me launch intents to navigate to the marker or show it in google maps. I would like to have these displayed automatically when the map is opened rather than having the user to click on the marker.

Like this :-) ... I can't seem to work out how to do this.

I have tried:

// create marker
MarkerOptions marker = new MarkerOptions().position(
        new LatLng(latitude, longitude)).title("title");

// adding marker
googleMap.addMarker(marker).showInfoWindow();
googleMap.getUiSettings().setMapToolbarEnabled(true);

But this just shows the marker title and a button on the top right to go to my location not the two toolbar intent buttons on the bottom right.

Like this :-( ... I'm a bit stuck any ideas?

Answer 1

I added a feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=7652

Answer 2

For the toolbar you have outlined in red, you can disable it using the setMapToolbarEnabled() method in UISettings

From the documentation:

Sets the preference for whether the Map Toolbar should be enabled or disabled. If enabled, users will see a bar with various context-dependent actions, including 'open this map in the Google Maps app' and 'find directions to the highlighted marker in the Google Maps app'.

Code example to disable the two buttons:

//Disable Map Toolbar:
mMap.getUiSettings().setMapToolbarEnabled(false);

Just in case you were also wondering about the zoom buttons, you can disable them like this:

mMap.getUiSettings().setZoomControlsEnabled(false);

Answer 3

The overlay that appears when a marker is clicked, is created and destroyed on-the-spot implicitly. You can't manually show that (yet).

If you must have this functionality, you can create an overlay over your map with 2 ImageViews, and call appropriate intents when they're clicked:

// Directions
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(
        "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=51.5, 0.125&daddr=51.5, 0.15"));
startActivity(intent);
// Default google map
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(
        "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:51.5, 0.125"));
startActivity(intent);

Note: you need to change the coordinates based on Marker's getPosition() and the user's location.

Now to hide the default overlay, all you need to do is return true in the OnMarkerClickListener. Although you'll lose the ability to show InfoWindows and center camera on the marker, you can imitate that simply enough:

mMap.setOnMarkerClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnMarkerClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {
        marker.showInfoWindow();
        mMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(marker.getPosition()));
        return true;
    }
});

Answer 4

Quoting the doc:

In a lite-mode map, the toolbar persists independently of the user's actions. In a fully-interactive map, the toolbar slides in when the user taps a marker and slides out again when the marker is no longer in focus.

Seeems like there is no way to persist the toolbar in your case since its an interactive map. You might want to try using lite-mode if that is a requirement: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/lite

Also looking at your code:

// create marker
MarkerOptions marker = new MarkerOptions().position(
        new LatLng(latitude, longitude)).title("title");

// adding marker
googleMap.addMarker(marker).showInfoWindow();
googleMap.getUiSettings().setMapToolbarEnabled(true);

The very last line: googleMap.getUiSettings().setMapToolbarEnabled(true); is redundant unless you are explicitly setting it to false beforehand. The doc states:

Sets the preference for whether the Map Toolbar should be enabled or disabled. If enabled, users will see a bar with various context-dependent actions, including 'open this map in the Google Maps app' and 'find directions to the highlighted marker in the Google Maps app'.

By default, the Map Toolbar is enabled.

The link: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/UiSettings.html#setMapToolbarEnabled(boolean)

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I had a similar issue..... if you are okay with not letting the user browse in the map and just focus on your marker, you can use lite-mode map.... Quote from documentation

In a lite-mode map, the toolbar persists independently of the user's actions. In a fully-interactive map, the toolbar slides in when the user taps a marker and slides out again when the marker is no longer in focus.

Again from docs

Also by default when a user taps the map, the API starts the Google Maps mobile app. You can override this by using GoogleMap.setOnMapClickListener() to set your own listener. You can also disable click events on the map, by calling setClickable() on the view that contains the MapView or MapFragment.

Answer 6

Show a DialogFragment instead of the info window and handle everything in it.

@Override
public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {
    FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
    DialogFragment markerWebView = DialogFragment();
    mMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(marker.getPosition()));
    markerWebView.show(fm, "fragment_marker");
    return true;
}

OR

use the marker clicks to turn an overlay on/off using a facsimile of a Google map button

mMap.setOnMarkerClickListener(this);
mMap.setOnInfoWindowClickListener(this);


@Override
public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {
    //here turn on the overlays for nav turns etc. for this marker.
    return false
}

@Override
public void onInfoWindowClick(Marker marker) {
    //here turn off the overlays for nav turns etc.
    marker.hideInfoWindow();
}