You never know what happens next! 😂

Hello, on the screen at 12:22 is a custom implementation of the `clusterItemContent`, which lets you use any `@Composable` as a marker during clustering. If you want to achieve that with Markers alone, you'd need to create a Bitmap (drawing on a Canvas whatever you need), and use the Bitmap as a custom `icon` on the `Marker` composable function. Hope this helps

@@lucanicoletti I am new to Android, do you have repo where I can see code?

@@pawandeepsingh6365 At the moment that repository is not public. I'm happy to send the code over via email for that specific part if necessary.

Thanks!

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Thanks, glad you enjoyed them :)

You’d need to subscribe to the position locator via a request, update the camera position and the dot itself through the position received. A bit more complex but totally doable!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed my content

What app would you be interesting in? Several screens with different things inside? One for markers, polygons, circles, polylines, overlays, etc?

@@lucanicoletti Hi Luca, If possible, I’m looking for a simple app with the following functionality: First, I want to search for a place using the Places API and save the results in a ROOM database. Once the saving process is complete, the app should display a main screen with a list of the saved addresses. There should be an option to sort the list in ascending order based on proximity to my current location. Another screen should display connected lines between these places and my current location. This is the basic concept I have in mind.

I see, that goes well beyond a simple tutorial, implies using additional API and a complex project setup, I doubt you’d find any code that does all of that! But that’s the beauty of programming, getting multiple small bits together on your own

Thanks! Hope you enjoy all my content 😌

Have you added the `buildFeatures` inside the `android` body? This is not a dependency

@@lucanicoletti yes buildConfig = true is in android body in gradle seting

whenever I try to use buildConfig.DEBUG its showing unresolved reference

Have you rebuilt the project after adding that line?

@@lucanicoletti yes

Never mind. Just got to my catalog and updated all versions including glance to 1.1.0 it showed up

Sorry I missed this comment, glad you found a solution. Yes, Scaffold was introduced in 1.1.0, not from 1.0.0. Let's see what future versions will get us :)

@@lucanicoletti Question is compose and glance a standard in corporate work? I stayed a long time far from coding hard to know what are the standards these days

Compose is for sure. Glance is for building widgets, not many apps have widgets and it’s still restricted compared to the old Widget systems. But a good start point!

Glad it helped

Thanks ☺️

What do you mean by Massive UI?

Hotel booking application, Uber application etc...

It is! You still don’t have embedded emulators on XCode, do you?

@@lucanicoletti I hope we never get them tbh, my confidence in the Xcode team diminishes every year hahaha

Thanks for the comment! Do you mean my code or the links to the official libraries and examples? My code is currently on private repositories

@@lucanicoletti I was talking about your code. I thought it was public. No problem.

Not for now no, mostly because it’s not well thought. As in my latest video I use injection of a repository in an Activity which shouldn’t be done. I don’t want people to get that as an example.

Hi @mariohuizinga1769 , thanks for the reply! Unfortunately there is no way to specify that you want only part of the default click implementation. If you want only one of the two actions to take place, you would need to implement that by yourself inside the onClick listener, and return `false` to prevent the default implementation from happening

​@@lucanicoletti You probably mean return `true` to disable default behaviour, I found out that part. But I can't find a way to call `showInfoWindow` in the onClusterItemClick listener, as it only provides the ClusterItem as a parameter. How can I get to the MarkerState of the clicked Marker to call showInfoWindow? Maybe this question is just to complicated as a comment to your video, no problem. I just hoped you might know an easy path.

@@mariohuizinga1769 There is no easy path. My mistake, I meant `true`, correct. You would need to create a view yourself for each marker, and display it when the user taps on the specific marker.

Hey! Thanks for you comment! I'll take a look at this scenario and come back with a solution

@@lucanicoletti Thank you so much 🙏 you provide the best tutorials I have ever seen. Keep it up🗣

Thanks ☺️ I appreciate that

Hey @prod.avarice, I did some research and found this: github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/blob/main/app/src/main/java/com/google/maps/android/compose/MapInColumnActivity.kt The example from the documentation show how to handle this scenario. If you don't find it clear, let me know and I'll create a video for it!

Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoy the content 😌

Thanks for the comment. I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve, and without looking at the code it would be hard for me to diagnose the problem.

Hey thank you for getting back to me!!! I mean like this ( private fun handleClusterClick(cluster: Cluster<MarkerDTO>) { googleMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(cluster.position, (googleMap.cameraPosition.zoom + 2)), object : GoogleMap.CancelableCallback { override fun onFinish() { cluster.items.forEachIndexed { index, markerDTO -> val offset = calculateOffset(index) val newPosition = LatLng(cluster.position.latitude + offset.first, cluster.position.longitude + offset.second) val markerOptions = MarkerOptions() .position(newPosition) .title(markerDTO.name) .snippet(markerDTO.snippet) .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.fromResource(R.drawable.tools_icon)) googleMap.addMarker(markerOptions) } } override fun onCancel() {} }) }) If I don't do googleMap.addMarker and just let the clustermanager handle it, the markers don't show it just zooms into the cluster but won't like uncuster it. I hope this makes sense? by the way I am using xml and the above code is from one of my fragments.

If you already have clusters and markers on your map you don't need to add them again to the map when handling a click. It's all handled for you. Tapping on a cluster will zoom in and display the markers if the zoom is enough to show them.

@@lucanicoletti thanks for replying dude! I just subd to your channel :) I already read that but for some reason when I don't readd them and I click then it just zooms in on the cluster, like it never unclusters it? Another question please if you don't mind, have you managed to work any buttons in the custom info window?

@@hyperfitnz For the first: the markers need to be at a given distance, perhaps 1 step of zoom is not enough to separate them from the cluster. For the second, I haven't try yet, no, did you face any problems?

I mentioned a few comparisons with what Android has already, and what iOS developers will have to deal with differently (for the icons for example). May I ask what was in your mind?

Thank you too

When did they release it on XCode?

@@lucanicoletti ~September 2022, it was probably the single feature xcode had that intellij didn't haha

But it works. It doesn’t properly in AS, for now…

I’m glad they were useful :)

Hey! So the industry is moving to Jetpack Compose and nowadays almost everyone uses it. I would recommend studying it, it’s also more enjoyable to use and easier to grasp!

Thanks!

Glad you like them!

Always like that: the bigger the struggle, the better the results

Thanks ☺️

Thanks to you for watching! There’s a new one coming out soon! 👀

You should have seen my face when I found out! 🤨

My latest video should have a bigger font already, give those a try and let me know if that is enough or if I should increase it even more.

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Thank you for watching!

Thanks 🙏🏼 tried to be funny on the thumbnail 😂

The Logcan Panel is the equivalent of DebugArea with Console shown

Thanks :)

I don’t right now, mostly because from one video to the other I removed the code to show new things. But I could create a project with a few examples. The official GitHub page of the GoogleMaps Compose has plenty of examples and a good documentation

Thanks! What would you like to know?

I want to customize the cluster component with a Bitmap I've already customized the normal marker, but I also want to do the same with the cluster. I think I am close, I am trying to use onBeforeClusterRender using the DefaultClusterRenderer class.

I understand the radius being zero as they can’t predict how big you want a circle to be. But the colours should be black as it is in the other functions. Actually, requiring the radius would be a better choice.

The only two remaining are the TileOverlay and GroundOverlay, would you like a video on those?

@@lucanicoletti Hi this would be perfect as i need it for my project idea. It would be nice if you could also test some limits of the overlay approach, e.g. if the app can handle 1 million overlay squares on the map.

@@Cyber-lw1bi I know for sure maps can handle several hundreds overlays at once, with smooth zoom and movements around. Never tried with thousands or millions. I guess it also depends on which overlay we’re talking about, the three in the video should be quite easy and perhaps also not draw when not in the maps boundaries 😄

@@lucanicoletti Ok I have now tried it with polygons, Basically I covered one country with a big polygon-rectangle and then tried to define several holes in this polygon. At approximately 500 rectangular holes in the polygon the app keeps crashing.... Do you think Ground Overlays or Tile Overlays are more efficient? I would really appreciate if you could explain both in a video soon, because there is absolutely no good documentation on the internet :))

@@Cyber-lw1bi ground overlays and tile overlays are for a completely different reason. What is the crash about?

I will come up with a video tutorial for that as well! It's already planned

Cool, I will be on the look out

The video for polygon, polylines and circles is up! It’s the latest one, you can check it out and let me know your thoughts ☺️

Thanks!! 🙏🏼

Me too! Let’s see what we will get and be able to achieve!

I noticed it after uploading, there was only one source. I believe something went wrong while exporting the video. I had different frame rate and frequencies between takes - screen and video. So that may have been a problem. Latest video has no problems on audio if I’m not wrong! Thanks for pointing this out and let me know :)