How To Capture Location From Mapactivity

Given ... An Activity that extends from MapActivity Uses ItemizedOverlay to show some balloons on the map ZoomControls are enabled The ItemizeOverlay implements onTap(...) whic

Solution 1:

You should be able to create an 'invisible' overlay (in the sense that you don't draw anything in onDraw) that sits at the front of the MapView's overlay list and in onTap, sets the map center with MapController.setCenter.

To quote the MapView.getOverlays documentation regarding overlay ordering:

Any Overlays in this list will be drawn (in increasing order) and will receive events (in decreasing order, until one returns true). If you modify the list, you will probably want to call View.postInvalidate() so that the change will be made visible to the user.