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Android App Development- Features for Google Maps

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Android Google Maps is an important utility that features in numerous apps. The native Android app helps those of us with oatmeal for brains find our way anywhere, without having to fire any neurons or exercise any synapses. It even helps us find places to pick up tasty cuisine — like, uh, oatmeal (yum!). Google also offers a native mapping API for Android. The Maps API is suitable for cases where you want to maintain more control over the mapping experience. Things that are possible with the Maps API include: Programmatically changing the viewpoint of the map. Adding and customizing markers. Annotating a map with overlays. But there's much more to Google Maps than meets the eye — and odds are, you aren't taking advantage of at least a few handy hidden features lurking in the Android app. With word that Google is now apparently testing Waze-like crash and speed test reporting within Maps, I thought it'd be a fine time to think through some of the a