Android Map Application : Drawing straight path between two Geo point on android Map

Drawing overlay on map in android, we have discusses in previous article. I suggest you to go through that article for easy way to get current concept.  Projection class is responsible for converting device coordinate to Geo point and vice-versa.  Once we convert these point to each other, our task of drawing path between two Geo point becomes very easy.

So lets start consider that you have already make one map simple application in android. And look at screen of simple map application result using your Map API Key

Now divide further task in steps----

Step 1) Create two point to draw on map using OverlayItem. After creating two Geo point, we will create one class ItemizedOverlayItem  to populate these point on MapView

      ItemizedOverlayItem itemMized;  
      Vector<OverlayItem> allOverLArrayList = new Vector<OverlayItem>();  
      private void drawTwoPoint() {  
           itemMized = new ItemizedOverlayItem(getResources().getDrawable(  
                     R.drawable.ic_launcher));  
           GeoPoint geopoint = new GeoPoint(230286706, 72509145);  
           mapView.getController().setCenter(geopoint);  
           OverlayItem item = new OverlayItem(geopoint, "", "");  
           allOverLArrayList.add(item);  
           geopoint = new GeoPoint(222286706, 71509145);  
           item = new OverlayItem(geopoint, "", "");  
           allOverLArrayList.add(item);  
           itemMized.addOverLayItme(allOverLArrayList);  
           mapView.getOverlays().add(itemMized);  
           mapView.getController().setCenter(geopoint);  
      }  

   

Step 2) So lets populate our two point on map. In next step, we will draw a most awaited path.

 package com.ahmad.displaylineonmap;  
 import java.util.Vector;  
 import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;  
 import com.google.android.maps.ItemizedOverlay;  
 import com.google.android.maps.OverlayItem;  
 public class ItemizedOverlayItem extends ItemizedOverlay<OverlayItem> {  
      public ItemizedOverlayItem(Drawable arg0) {  
           super(boundCenter(arg0));  
      }  
      @Override  
      protected OverlayItem createItem(int arg0) {  
           return mlocItems.get(arg0);  
      }  
      public void addOverLayItme(Vector<OverlayItem> mlocItems) {  
           this.mlocItems = mlocItems;  
           populate();  
      }  
      Vector<OverlayItem> mlocItems;  
      @Override  
      public int size() {  
           return mlocItems.size();  
      }  
 }  

Step 3) Now this tutorial creates a layer on map to draw a path between two Geo points.

 package com.ahmad.displaylineonmap;  
 import android.graphics.Canvas;  
 import android.graphics.Color;  
 import android.graphics.Paint;  
 import android.graphics.Point;  
 import com.google.android.maps.GeoPoint;  
 import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;  
 import com.google.android.maps.MapView;  
 import com.google.android.maps.Overlay;  
 import com.google.android.maps.Projection;  
 public class OverLayClass extends Overlay {  
      Projection projection;  
      MapActivity mapActivity;  
      MapView mapView;  
      public OverLayClass(Projection projection, MapActivity act, MapView map) {  
           this.projection = projection;  
           mPaint = new Paint();  
           mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);  
           mPaint.setDither(true);  
           mPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);  
           mPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);  
           mPaint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);  
           mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);  
           mPaint.setStrokeWidth(12);  
           this.mapActivity = act;  
           mapView = map;  
      }  
      Paint mPaint;  
      public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapv, boolean shadow) {  
           super.draw(canvas, mapv, shadow);  
           GeoPoint geopoint = new GeoPoint(230286706, 72509145);  
           Point pointOne = projection.toPixels(geopoint, null);  
           geopoint = new GeoPoint(222286706, 71509145);  
           Point pointtwo = projection.toPixels(geopoint, null);  
           canvas.drawLine(pointOne.x, pointOne.y, pointtwo.x, pointtwo.y, mPaint);  
      }  
 }  

Some points and lines need to be discusses here. One important thing is Projection which allows us to interchange device coordinate to Geo point. So look at this
        
                GeoPoint geopoint = new GeoPoint(230286706, 72509145);
Point pointOne = projection.toPixels(geopoint, null);
geopoint = new GeoPoint(222286706, 71509145);
Point pointtwo = projection.toPixels(geopoint, null);

Attaching Layer name Overlay class to map to create any figure
                       
                OverLayClass mOverLayClass = new OverLayClass(projection, this, mapView);
mapView.getOverlays().add(mOverLayClass);

So now its time for complete source code
                  

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