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DevBytes: Maphacks - Animating Markers

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Chris Broadfoot and Ankur Kotwal demonstrate how to animate map markers and plot paths on Android.

Chris Broadfoot and Ankur Kotwal show modern techniques to animate markers. Chris & Ankur also show how plotting a path varies between the surface of the map and the surface of the earth. Sample Code: gist.github.com/broady/6314689

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On “Animating markers on Google Maps v2”

Some Google engineers have provided a nice demo video with some elegant sample code about how to animate markers from a starting point to an ending point, for all various versions of Android: The relevant code is here: https://gist.github.com/broady/6314689 And a nice demo video of all of it in action. link to this video OLD DEPRECATED ANSWER BELOW In the documentation, it is mentioned that Marker Icons cannot be changed: Icon A bitmap that's displayed for the marker. If the icon is left unset, a default icon is displayed. You can specify an alternative coloring of the default icon using defaultMarker(float). You can't change the icon once you've created the marker. Google Maps API…
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