How to move the Android Google Maps API Compass Position

Use GoogleMap.setPadding() method:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/map#map_padding

@Override
public void onMapReady(GoogleMap map) {

    try {
        final ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) mMapView.findViewWithTag("GoogleMapMyLocationButton").getParent();
        parent.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    Resources r = getResources();
                    //convert our dp margin into pixels
                    int marginPixels = (int)TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 20, r.getDisplayMetrics());
                    // Get the map compass view
                    View mapCompass = parent.getChildAt(4);

                    // create layoutParams, giving it our wanted width and height(important, by default the width is "match parent")
                    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rlp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(mapCompass.getHeight(),mapCompass.getHeight());
                    // position on top right
                    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT, 0);
                    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP);
                    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT);
                    rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM, 0);
                    //give compass margin
                    rlp.setMargins(marginPixels, marginPixels, marginPixels, marginPixels);
                    mapCompass.setLayoutParams(rlp);
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    ex.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }

}

As I know you can't change compass position but you can disable it and build yours private one.

See example here

I know it's been a long time that the question was asked , but I feld on this issue a few days ago I fixed the problem like this :

try {
                assert mapFragment.getView() != null;
                final ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) mapFragment.getView().findViewWithTag("GoogleMapMyLocationButton").getParent();
                parent.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        try {
                            for (int i = 0, n = parent.getChildCount(); i < n; i++) {
                                View view = parent.getChildAt(i);
                                RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rlp = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams();
                                // position on right bottom
                                rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT, 0);
                                rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP,0);
                                rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT);
                                rlp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM);
                                rlp.rightMargin = rlp.leftMargin;
                                rlp.bottomMargin = 25;
                                view.requestLayout();
                            }
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            ex.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                });
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }

in this exemple i put the compass in the corner right. You need to be sure that your mapFragment is created when you do this, i suggest you run your code in the method "onMapReady" of your MapFragment.