Android Tutorial & Lessons 32: Adding a working compass to our Map activity

Android Tutorial & Lessons 32: Adding a working compass to our Map activity

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-Learn about overlay
-add a compass overlay
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Category:

Education

Tags:

• android
• google
• development
• lesson
• tutorials
• tutorial
• map
• mapview
• add
• overlay
• compass
• example

[taibm]

I know that the compass is running in the background when I run the program but the compass isn't appearing. Would the overlay appear only when I run the program on a actual phone or should I be able to see it in the emulator?

[CornboyzAndroid]

@taibm Yea, I believe that it will only appear on the actual phone, not the emulator. However, I'm sure there is a way to configure the emulator to show it, but to be quite honest, I'm not positive how. :(

[prarthanasampath15]

Hey Travis!!! i know this is too much to ask but can u please make a tutorila on android location manager........ if ur free that is....

[tdor100]

I would love to see some source codes to go along with the vids

[dclan123]

I thought that because I see the map on my emulator, that I'd see it on my phone. When I exported, I had a functional compass on a grey grid :(

[WaeHaKe]

how do we add a marker? and perhaps some text that we can display from that marker?