mitmel/Locast-Android — Issue #11: Investigate mapping solutions
Author: xxv
Created: 2011-11-20 17:36:01+00:00
State: open
Labels: wishlist

The Google Maps widget is very nice, but has issues when two activities both use the widget and are in the same process. This means that one needs to give every activity that uses the widget its own process, which can bog down the resources of the phone fairly easily.

One solution is to use OSMDroid (which the current app does), although that's not entirely ideal as Open Street Map is not known for its speed.

One possible solution would be to use OSMDroid + Google tiles, although it seems somewhat complex to implement.