Hello developers, and welcome back.
In this course we're going to learn about Google Maps.
This is a very interesting thing in Android applications.
This course teaches you how to integrate and customize Google Maps in Android applications.
You'll learn how to display maps, add markers, handle user interactions, implement location tracking,
and optimize performance.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to build dynamic map based applications with modern Android
development practices.
Imagine building apps that show real time directions, track deliveries, or help users explore the
world, all with just a few lines of code.
How with Google Maps in Android.
Welcome to the first video in our Google Maps with Jetpack Compose course.
In today's video, we'll uncover why Google Maps is a game changer for Android developers and how you
can master it.
Google maps is more than just an app, it's a powerful SDK that lets you embed interactive maps, location
tracking, and geospatial features into your own Android apps.
Whether you are building a ride hailing service, a travel guide, or a fitness tracker, Google Maps
provides the tools to make it happen.
Google maps allow developers to integrate interactive maps into their Android applications using the
Google Maps SDK for Android.
This SDK provides tools for displaying maps, adding markers, handling gestures and drawing routes,
polygons, and other overlays.
Google maps provides interactive maps with zoom, pan and tilt.
This is called the interactive maps zoom, pan, pan and 3D tilting markers.
Polylines shapes.
For location based applications, this is markers and shapes, location tracking and geocoding, changing
from address to coordinates and vice versa, and GPS tracking and geocoding and street view directions,
API and places API routes and navigation.
In this course, you're going to start from scratch and gradually unlock the full potential of Google
Maps.
We're going to display and customize maps in compose.
adding markers, polylines and user interactions.
Fetching live location and geocoding addresses.
And advanced features like clustering, offline maps and the places API.
So there are a lot of things you can get from Google.
So Google Maps provides a suite of APIs, application programming interfaces that let you embed, display
and interact with maps and location data in your Android app or web back end systems.
These APIs are part of the Google Maps platform.
We have the maps SDK, which is the maps API used to display maps and lets interact with the map.
So the Google Maps SDK for Android embeds interactive maps in Android applications.
Customize with markers Polylines overlays, supports, gestures, camera movement and styling.
Returning a static, non-interactive image of a map.
Good for thumbnail printables.
This is the maps static API and Map Tiles API.
Advanced use.
Access base map tiles directly.
The second API is the places API provides details about geographical locations, including search and
autocomplete.
Search for places.
For example restaurants or stores.
Place autocomplete for search suggestions, retrieve place details, name, address coordinates and
get place photos and the geocoding API.
Convert addresses latitude to longitude and latitude, longitude to addresses and addresses to latitude
longitude and vice versa.
Also, we can get the device location using Wi-Fi and cell data without GPS.
The directions API get directions between locations.
Supports multiple travel modes.
Driving.
Walking, cycling.
Transit includes turn by turn steps, duration and distance.
Get travel time and distance between multiple origins and destinations.
Good for comparing routes or ETA calculations.
The time the expected time to arrive replaces directions API in newer versions with more features like
traffic aware routing, toll costs, and route modifiers.
Okay, there are a lot of things we can do in in Google Maps.
It's a very interesting thing.
So I for this purpose I made this course and make this those sections because this are very important
things.
So in order to display a map in Android, we use map SDK for Android, show current location maps SDK
plus location services, add search autocomplete for places SDK for Android, convert addresses to coordinates.
We use geocoding API.
Get directions between two points.
We use directions API.
Calculate distance between many points.
Distance matrix API.
Find elevation of a trail elevation API and the other APIs.
Okay, we are interesting in building and get get the most of services, the most of Google Maps services
in order to make our application looks more professional and learn how to use those services regarding
the authentication and billing all APIs require a Google Cloud project with billing enabled, you'll
need to generate an API key and restrict it properly by app or referrer.
Some APIs are free up to a quota then billed per use.
Okay, these are very important notes.
We will start by adding and creating Google accounts and add the credit card.
But don't worry, you will not be billed.
You will not pay anything until you reach a specific quota.
Okay, so please pay attention.
Some APIs are free up to a quota then billed per use.
Okay, this is our, uh, introduction to Google Maps course.
And let's start navigation.
Let's start navigating between codes and between streets in Google Maps course.