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how to restrict maps to only one country using google maps api for android

I am totally new to google's maps api for android and I was wondering if it is possible to restrict the area the map is showing to one country only. I mean my target users are in my own country only and it is not useful nor logical to show them the whole world when the application logic is going to be only on this country.
Any ideas?
ps: if it is not possible in google's api,is there a way to do this with another api form another source which provides a mapping service?

If you are still interested, now it's possible to restrict the user's panning to a given area using the setLatLngBoundsForCameraTarget method.
You will need to update the dependencies for your Play Services:
dependencies {
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.6.1'
}

You can restrict the user view to specific square -maybe- of the map, to do so, you can use the following:
private GoogleMap mMap;
// Create a LatLngBounds that includes the city of Adelaide in Australia.
private LatLngBounds ADELAIDE = new LatLngBounds(
new LatLng(-35.0, 138.58), new LatLng(-34.9, 138.61));
// Constrain the camera target to the Adelaide bounds.
mMap.setLatLngBoundsForCameraTarget(ADELAIDE);
in this case, the user will not be able to zoom in, in the map in areas where the camera is totally out of the range -square- you specified.
for more details, source: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/views#restricting_the_users_panning_to_a_given_area

I am pretty sure you cannot only display your chosen country using the google api service. However, what you can do, is restrict google places auto complete to a specific country, by finding your country code (e.g. using this link https://countrycode.org/) and then adding the query to your google places api e.g.
components=country:your_country_code //Insert code into example
For example, this is what is would look like:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?
input=bhubaneshwar&components=country:in&sensor=false&key=your_key

out of the box this is not possible. However what you could theoretically do it find the max bounding box that shows the country in question then everytime the camera moves check to make sure the bounding box is inside the max one. If it is not set it to the max. that would restrict them to a certain spot

you can override the map and specific the latitude and longitude
and zoom in with suitable for you and disable the gesture of map
see this example it is answered before
limit scrolling and zooming Google Maps Android API v2

How to create a map thumbnail with marker like location sharing in whatsapp

i am developing a chat application, Please suggest me any idea to create a map thumbnail of a location For sharing person's location to another person in chat page, like the location sharing in whatsApp.
Thanks in Advance!

back in google-maps-api1 you used to be able to get the map as a bitmap from the api, then api2 came out and you couldnt anymore so i used google-static-maps-api to get a picture of the map, but new map api 3 came out so maybe they put that functionality back in, idk but you can use google static maps api to download a map you specify the coordinates and use that

How to export your location as WGS84 in a new string

I'm making a new private android app to take a picture, get your current location in WGS84, and at last send it all in an e-mail to your self.
I have send the mail with the content from the textfields, but I have made a button to get the your current location, but didn't know how to get your location and in same way also convert it to WGS84. I need to get it in this coordinatesystem, because it is used in a special sparetime activity, which uses this coordinatesystem.
Just forget the picture, the coordinate is more important.
Thanks in advance
Greetings Aksel

I'm not 100% sure if I got your question right. But you want to convert the location you get into WGS84 coordinatesm right? I'll guess you get your position via the Android LocationManager using something like: LocationManager.getLastPosition(). What you get is a Location . This location can be formated in different ways.
The questions is what exactly do you want? WGS84 is a reference system and does not say anything about the way coordinates are represented. A common representation are sphereical coordinates (also called Lat/Lon coordinates): Spherical Coordinates.
Another representation would be Cartesian coordinates. Maybe thats what you are looking for. To get cartesian coordinates you should use a 3rd party library.

Convert Osmdroid latitude/longitude to JXMapKit

I am developing a software, some kind of GPS. It has two sides. Admin(PC) and Clients(Android).
Android version use Osmdroid maps, and what I want to do is grab the Mappoint that I created in Android, insert it to the database and than read it from other devices.
The problem is that if the actual Latitude and Longitude of point that I create is for example 42.222222 and 23.55555, after doing this:
IProjection project = view.getProjection();
final GeoPoint geo = (GeoPoint)project.fromPixels((int)e.getX(),(int)e.getY());
*e is a motion event
the actual value that is stored in latitude and longitude of that GeoPoint is 42222222 or 2355555. The coma just disappears from that values, so it is useless to usage in PC version. I don't know how the OSMdroid is working with this values, but is there any way to convert it to its standard format like -42.584254 ?

I´ve just found a solution ,it must be just divided by 1E6 :)

j2me: how to show My Location in google map?

Hi
how i show My Location on Google map ? i see j2me google map application that show My Location , how can i get My Location cordinate ?
thanks

A good start would be to look at Here
and to fetch current coordinates check the documents here
Note: It must be a GPS Enabled phone