MapStyleOptions

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• MapStyleOptions allows customization of Google Maps styles, impacting the visual display of features like roads and parks.

• You can change the style of map features or hide them completely to emphasize specific elements or complement your app's content.

• Style options are defined using a JSON string, which can be loaded from a raw resource or directly passed as a string.

• loadRawResourceStyle and the constructor are the primary methods to create MapStyleOptions instances.

public final class MapStyleOptions extends Object
implements Parcelable

Defines styling options for a GoogleMap.

With style options you can customize the presentation of the standard Google map styles, changing the visual display of features like roads, parks, and other points of interest. As well as changing the style of these features, you can also hide features entirely. This means that you can emphasize particular components of the map or make the map complement the content of your app.

Developer Guide

For more information, read the developer guide.

Inherited Constant Summary

From interface android.os.Parcelable

int	CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR
int	PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE

Public Constructor Summary

MapStyleOptions(String json) Creates a new set of map style options based on the given JSON styling string.

Public Method Summary

static MapStyleOptions	loadRawResourceStyle(Context clientContext, int resourceId) Creates a new set of map style options based on the a JSON styling string loaded from a raw resource identifier.
void	writeToParcel(Parcel out, int flags)

Inherited Method Summary

From class java.lang.Object

Object	clone()
boolean	equals(Object arg0)
void	finalize()
final Class<?>	getClass()
int	hashCode()
final void	notify()
final void	notifyAll()
String	toString()
final void	wait(long arg0, int arg1)
final void	wait(long arg0)
final void	wait()

From interface android.os.Parcelable

abstract int	describeContents()
abstract void	writeToParcel(Parcel arg0, int arg1)

Public Constructors

public MapStyleOptions (String json)

Creates a new set of map style options based on the given JSON styling string.

Parameters

json	The JSON string containing map style options. Must not be null.

Public Methods

public static MapStyleOptions loadRawResourceStyle (Context clientContext, int resourceId)

Creates a new set of map style options based on the a JSON styling string loaded from a raw resource identifier.

Parameters

clientContext	Client context for the supplied resourceId.
resourceId	Id of a raw resource containing the styling JSON.

Returns

• A reference to this MapStyleOptions to allow call chaining.

Throws

	if resourceId is not a valid raw resource id or the resource could not be read.
Resources.NotFoundException

public void writeToParcel (Parcel out, int flags)