Theme Google Maps for Android

Question

I recently managed to get an Ingress invite, and love the way the maps are themed in that.

I know similar theming can be done for Google Maps in a browser, as shown here.

Does anybody know how Ingress themed the map on Android? Is this a feature only available to Google, or can we use it in our apps through the standard maps library?

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My guess is that it is not available yet, but that at some point it will be available upon popular request. Do you like the game? Waiting for invite. — PascalVKooten, Nov 20 '12 at 18:02
I saw similar theming in another Google app, don't recall which, but it was quite a bit back. — Raghav Sood, Nov 20 '12 at 18:03
The game is decent. Haven't had much time to play it. Got the invite just today morning. — Raghav Sood, Nov 20 '12 at 18:03
@Raghav Sood did you find the answer on your question? Wanting to do something simular — Stephan Celis, Feb 03 '13 at 11:33
@StephanCelis Afraid not. It seems like the themeing is Google's own inhouse project for now. — Raghav Sood, Feb 03 '13 at 11:34
@MarkoNiciforovic I still haven't been able to find any way to do this via any SDK on Android. — Raghav Sood, May 08 '13 at 09:45
oki thanks, hope they will make something I really need this asap. — Marko Niciforovic, May 08 '13 at 09:48

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 18:22

Honestly, this is a guess (a lot more of a guess for me than usual)

The MapView itself is a view. There's constructors to take in contexts and attributes. You might be able to play with a ContextThemeWrapper or extend the mapview and do things with onDraw().

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '16 at 19:07

As of September 21, 2016, Google has released a feature to allow you to theme maps in a very flexible way, using JSON files that provide the theme with color for the various elements. They have also released a small web app to allow you to experiment with themes, which they have released at: Styling Wizard

You can also find Google's documentation on this feature.

Good luck!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 26 '16 at 13:48

I dont think that Google Map has themes. But We have one way of getting the themed map for android app is MapBoxSDK.

https://www.mapbox.com

mapbox sdk is similar like google map regarding the function name and other stuff. Only change is you have to use mapboxview instead of mapView in android.

This one gives you customized map skin.

Theme Google Maps for Android

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