The Android Dev blog has today announced a new addition to the Apps-For-Android project. The new software, ‘Panoramio’ uses the website’s API to display photo’s based on specific user locations.
The code for these applications is not very long, but they are a good example of how to use a number of Android’s location APIs:
- Using an embedded MapView along with a MyLocationOverlay to plot your current location. The is also a custom class which extends Overlay to draw the Panoramio pushpin.
- Using the SensorManager to get our compass heading.
- Using the LocationManager to determine our current location
For more information on Panoramio, head on over to the Official Android Developer blog.
Previous Apps-For-Android updates include:
WebViewDemo
Divide & Conquer
Triangle, SpriteText and Downloader
Photostream
AndroidGlobalTime
WikiNotes
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