Exercise 09 - Show your favourite cities in a Google Maps

Project name : E09 Favourite Cities

Note

If you are afread to use Google Maps (billing), you can try to use any other Maps API's what you can find from the internet. Here are a few other Maps to use. If you found other possibilites, send those links to me and I will update this list.

• OpenStreetMap
• MapBox
• TomTom

Remember that you can always check your API requests and estimated charges from Google Cloud Platform, if you are going to use a Google Maps. Read more information here Google Maps Platform Billing - free trial.

Warning

JAMK/IT is not responsible any cost what might be caused to you with Google Maps SDK or any other SDK's!

Introduction

The purpose of this exercise is to learn how to use Google Maps in Android application.

Requirements

• Use any Maps API in your Android application
• Show 5 favourite cities in a Map with a Markers
• City name will be shown when a marker is pressed

How to work

Learn Get Started with Google Maps material from the Android Developer site and watch Google Maps example video (from course materials) to get basic understanding of Google Maps. Create a new project (name it to E09 Favourite Cities) and use markers to show 5 of your favourite cities in a Google Maps. More information will be shown when a marker is clicked.

 

Test and push

Test your application in emulator, take screenshots and commit/push your project and screenshots back to JAMKIT/GitLab. Remember move your exercise/issue ticket from Doing to In Review in Issues Board and write your learning comments to issue comments.