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Marker.CollisionBehavior

public static abstract @interface Marker.CollisionBehavior implements Annotation

Indicates how the marker is dealt with when involved in a collision with other markers or base map labels.

Constant Summary

int	OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY	Set if the marker may be replaced/overlapped by a required marker or replaced by an OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY marker with higher priority.
int	REQUIRED	Set if the marker must be placed and may be overlapped with other markers or labels.
int	REQUIRED_AND_HIDES_OPTIONAL	Set if the marker must be placed and will hide any OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY markers or labels that would overlap with the marker.

Inherited Method Summary

From interface java.lang.annotation.Annotation

abstract Class<? extends Annotation>	annotationType()
abstract boolean	equals(Object arg0)
abstract int	hashCode()
abstract String	toString()

Constants

public static final int OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY

Set if the marker may be replaced/overlapped by a required marker or replaced by an OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY marker with higher priority.

Constant Value: 2

public static final int REQUIRED

Set if the marker must be placed and may be overlapped with other markers or labels. This is the default behavior.

Constant Value: 0

public static final int REQUIRED_AND_HIDES_OPTIONAL

Set if the marker must be placed and will hide any OPTIONAL_AND_HIDES_LOWER_PRIORITY markers or labels that would overlap with the marker. It may be overlapped with other required markers.

Constant Value: 1