In my previuos post[1], i mention a workaround for changing buttons on Google Map which we use with google services. It is good to know they listen developers and make their products more development friendly. (I hope it goes like that way all the time and all the product lines of Google) Now we have a method for setting padding of map. It is add padding to useful area of map. We can see full screen map but with padding we can use prefered area of it. It is good for overlay action bar and other things on map view. [ 2] They write a blog and take a video about it. Read blog and watch video if you are using google map in your app :) [3] And finally, They add this method because of this issue. That means, if you find a bug or want extra feature from and api, write to google via this issue tracking system. [1] http://blog.kozaxinan.com/2013/08/how-to-change-position-of.html [2] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/map#map_padding [3] http://googlegeodeve...

I noticed that Geocoder does not work for a month in my app. I tested it different simulator and device. But i never get a address. After test i search another method for find address. While i search this, i notice i am not alone with geocoder issue. Other developers use a work arround. I added a few line of code for encoding UTF-8 characters. public static List < Address > getStringFromLocation ( double lat , double lng ) throws ClientProtocolException , IOException , JSONException { String address = String . format (Locale. ENGLISH , "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=%1$f,%2$f&sensor=false" , lat, lng); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(address); HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); client.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames. HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET , "UTF-8" ); HttpResponse response; StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); List<Address> retList = null ;  respo...

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