MapView needs support for touch events on map pins, and method to remove just one pin.

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#1

I am porting an “in-progess” iPhone app from Appcelerator’s Titanium SDK to your Corona SDK. But I’m running into a roadblock with your MapView feature. There is no way for me to interact with Corona’s map markers. The Titanium.Map API has methods for adding clickable images to the popups that appear when you click a map pin. So then I can respond to events from user’s clicks. There is also a method for removing any one map pin.

What I really need is some way to respond to a user’s click on a map pin, or its popup, and also someway to remove one particular map pin. Is there any hope? [import]uid: 23636 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 306130[/import]

#2

Just another comment about this request.

I see in the Corona roadmap that you have listed “Misc. improvements to core API usability”, along with “MapView support (Android)”. I would like to suggest that while you are working on the Android MapView, you include the functionality to fire an event for clicks on the map pin marker that we can handle in code. And also please include a MapView method that allows us to delete a specified single map pin marker, using an ID from the click event.

If we are building a database of map pin markers with information added by our user, we need a way to allow the user to delete map pins along with the associated data base record. [import]uid: 23636 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 22782[/import]

#3

I’d like to add a request for the ability to enter a search into the mapView… it is google right? [import]uid: 12578 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 24550[/import]

#4

does anybody knows a way of letting the user scroll the map, and find the address in the center of the map?

my end users would like to drag the map to their correct position and manually correct gps gaps.

anyway of placing a marker at the center of the map at all times and let the user drag the map setting his location on the center? [import]uid: 11078 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 78353[/import]

#5

I agree with Bruce, Map view Methods is not complete.
And, what methods myMap.direction is?

Edge [import]uid: 85220 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 78591[/import]

#6

+1

Also, would like the ability to get various properties of the map such as center position and zoom level, since these can be changed by the user (by panning and pinching to zoom). [import]uid: 29384 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 78608[/import]

#7

+1

Already had another thread on this. [import]uid: 19297 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 78612[/import]

#8

I have an app almost ready to go, but I cannot release it without (at least) the touch event on the marker. Custom marker graphic would be nice. But without the touch event, markers are useless in a map.

Ansca folks: if you are reading this, please add this minor functionality. We have been waiting for a long time. I know you guys have many priorities. I’d not ask if there was any workaround for this. [import]uid: 19297 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 82361[/import]

#9

+1

We’ve got an app idea we have wanted to develop for a long time now and have been waiting on touch events on map markers before starting it. I would agree that custom marker graphics would be great, but without touch events map markers are basically useless.

I actually thought about the idea of building out this app in Appcelerator for this very reason…Bruce would you not recommend this?

How has your experience been with it? What is your reason for needing to port it over to Corona?

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#10

@bonesmalone133

You could probably do what you want with Appcelerator. These two short demo videos show what I did with it, and demonstrate what map capabilities I’d like to see added to Corona.
http://www.chirpid.com/home/chirpid_demo.swf
http://www.chirpid.com/home/chirpid_database.swf

I switched from using Appcelerator to HTML5 when Steve Jobs announced that the App store would only accept apps written in Obj-C (later relaxed). But Safari does not fully support HTML5 offline file caching, so the app performs poorly.

After learning about Bubble Ball and Ansca I tried to port the app as an experiment to test the functionality of the Corona SDK.

I’ve stayed as a big Corona fan to do games. [import]uid: 23636 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 82474[/import]

#11

Thanks for the info Bruce. Yea I absolutely have loved Corona since I heard about it last year, I’ve got one game out on iOS and another in the works.

Hopefully Ansca will work on additional map functionality soon!

-Clark [import]uid: 5786 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 82513[/import]

#12

Ansca team:

I know you guys have loads of feature requests like this one. I understand you guys have a lot of priorities for fixing existing issues, bugs, etc.

But I’d really appreciate an update on this request - a touch event for the map marker.

Thanks in advance. [import]uid: 19297 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 86112[/import]

#13

Looks like that has been a request for over a year now with nothing but silence from Corona.

This feature is used a lot in apps now and is pretty important.

Since there is no word on this from Corona, is it safe to say that Corona is mainly for games and can’t handle the more common business types that are very popular now?

I’ve been holding out hope, but I have to make a decision soon as to what to use for my next app. [import]uid: 5997 topic_id: 6130 reply_id: 106113[/import]

#14

Yea I mean they keep touting that Corona can be used for more than just games but as features like this continue to go un-noticed it is clear that it’s definitely not a priority for them at the moment.

I have all but given up hope that Corona can be used for much more than just games…sadly.

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#15

I need this feature too.

What about using a web view? Is it possible to create a web view with google maps and then interact with them from the web view?

Thanks

#16

I need this feature too.

What about using a web view? Is it possible to create a web view with google maps and then interact with them from the web view?

Thanks