Google Maps API Android show Map of address in MapFragment

Question

I have a SupportMapFragment

private GoogleMap mMap;
// ...
mMap = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();

I want to load the map for a particular address. The above code, I got at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/map. I also saw this post Google maps API in Android which talks about starting an activity. I don't want to do that but load it in the fragment. How do I do this? The APIs of Google Map (http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/GoogleMap.html) also don't have any appropriate method for loading map with specific address.

Answer 1

Take a look at this code,

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  static final LatLng HAMBURG = new LatLng(53.558, 9.927);
  static final LatLng KIEL = new LatLng(53.551, 9.993);
  private GoogleMap map;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    map = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map))
        .getMap();

    if (map!=null){
      Marker hamburg = map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(HAMBURG)
          .title("Hamburg"));
      Marker kiel = map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
          .position(KIEL)
          .title("Kiel")
          .snippet("Kiel is cool")
          .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory
              .fromResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher)));
    }

  }