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...

When an app use map and design some layout on this map (TextView, Button or image), developer needs to change position of default buttons of map view. (MyLocationButton, ZoomControl or compass...) As far as i know, there are two possible way for changing position of myLocationButton's position. 1- * - Disable it     * - Create new button programmatically     * - Add animateCamera(toCurrentLocation) to onClickListener of this button     * - And place it wherever you want But if you don't want to write all that there is a hack for that. 2 - * - findViewById() of hardcoded button with; ZoomControl id = 0x1 MyLocation button id = 0x2      * - And do whatever you want: // Find map fragment SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map); // Find myLocationButton view View myLocationButton = mapFragment.getView().findViewById(0x2); if (myLocationButto...