mitchtabian / Google-Maps-2018

Google maps, directions, markers, clusters, custom icons, real-time gps updates (like uber) and more

Google Maps and Directions API

Watch the course on YouTube: here.

Watch the Course Demo.

What you'll learn:

1. Enabling the Google Maps SDK for Android
2. Enabling the Google Directions API for Android
3. MapView objects
4. Animating and moving the camera view
5. Setting view bounds on a google map
6. Building a thread that retrieves coordinates from a database
7. Building a service that inserts coordinates into a database
8. Create custom map markers with images
9. Get real time gps updates of users (Like Uber does)
10. How to use marker cluster to make custom map markers
11. Retrieving distance and travel time information using the directions API
12. Adding Polylines to a google map
13. Determining the fastest route
14. Opening the Google Maps application using an intent and uri