Using Google Maps in Android

Google Maps is one of the many applications bundled with the Android platform. In addition to simply using the Maps application, you can also embed it into your own applications and make it do some very cool things. In this article, I will show you how to use Google Maps in your Android applications and how to programmatically perform the following:

1. Change the views of Google Maps
2. Obtain the latitude and longitude of locations in Google Maps
3. Perform geocoding and reverse geocoding
4. Add markers to Google Maps