Google android maps api v2 Show Marker Title Always
For displaying marker titles on the map around the markers, none of the solutions I found on internet worked for me so I rolled up my sleeves and made this library which solves this problem for me, hopefully it will help others too:
https://github.com/androidseb/android-google-maps-floating-marker-titles
Here is a preview of how it works:
You can do this:
Marker marker = mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(currentPosition).title("Your text"));
marker.showInfoWindow();
Something like that:
googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
.position(new LatLng(latitude, longitude))
.title("Your position")).showInfoWindow();
Just call Marker.showInfoWindow();
. See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/marker#info_windows and https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/model/Marker#showInfoWindow()