How to get screen coordinates from marker in google maps v2 android
toScreenLocation appears to have been replaced by fromLatLngToPoint gmaps api doc for projection: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference/image-overlay#Projection
Yes, use Projection
class. More specifically:
Get
Projection
of the map:Projection projection = map.getProjection();
Get location of your marker:
LatLng markerLocation = marker.getPosition();
Pass location to the
Projection.toScreenLocation()
method:Point screenPosition = projection.toScreenLocation(markerLocation);
That's all. Now screenPosition
will contain the position of the marker relative to the top-left corner of the whole Map container :)
Edit
Remember, that the Projection
object will only return valid values after the map has passed the layout process (i.e. it has valid width
and height
set). You're probably getting (0, 0)
because you're trying to access position of the markers too soon, like in this scenario:
- Create the map from layout XML file by inflating it
- Initialize the map.
- Add markers to the map.
- Query
Projection
of the map for marker positions on the screen.
This is not a good idea since the the map doesn't have valid width and height set. You should wait until these values are valid. One of the solutions is attaching a OnGlobalLayoutListener
to the map view and waiting for layout process to settle. Do it after inflating the layout and initializing the map - for example in onCreate()
:
// map is the GoogleMap object
// marker is Marker object
// ! here, map.getProjection().toScreenLocation(marker.getPosition()) will return (0, 0)
// R.id.map is the ID of the MapFragment in the layout XML file
View mapView = getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map).getView();
if (mapView.getViewTreeObserver().isAlive()) {
mapView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
// remove the listener
// ! before Jelly Bean:
mapView.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
// ! for Jelly Bean and later:
//mapView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
// set map viewport
// CENTER is LatLng object with the center of the map
map.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(CENTER, 15));
// ! you can query Projection object here
Point markerScreenPosition = map.getProjection().toScreenLocation(marker.getPosition());
// ! example output in my test code: (356, 483)
System.out.println(markerScreenPosition);
}
});
}
Please read through the comments for additional informations.