Displaying Zoom Controls and Changing the View of Google Maps in Android. or Create ZoomIn or Out by Code

Hello all………

In the previous post I showed you how to start with Google maps in android.
In this post I will show you how to show zooming controls and changing the view of the map.

Actually this is really simple.

Add these lines to the previous code to add the zooming controls.

map_view.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);    // Show the Zoom Controls

Now how to change the view of the map. To change it to satellite View apply this code.

map_view.setSatellite(true);

To change the view to StreetView apply this code

map_view.setStreetView(true);

After applying this the screen will appear like this