android - How to show both MarkerIcon and Title in google map as like Google Apps?

Question

When I find nearest restaurants in Google's Maps Android Application the restaurant name is showing near to marker icon as default. (Refer Google Image).

But in my application I need to do same when I search for nearest restaurants, I able to display only marker icons. (Refer My Application Image).

Google Image:

My Application Image:

Partial Solution : Here I found partial solution for this we get this by drawing a text using canvas. I used below code refer by these links here and here But canvas drawing cutting of my text. Refer attached image TextDrawn Image

Marker myLocMarker = map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
            .position(myLocation)
            .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.fromBitmap(writeTextOnDrawable(R.drawable.bluebox, "your text goes here"))));

    private Bitmap writeTextOnDrawable(int drawableId, String text) {

            Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), drawableId)
                    .copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888, true);

            Paint paint = new Paint();
            paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
            paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
            paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
            paint.setLinearText(true);
            paint.setAntiAlias(true);
            paint.setTypeface(Typeface.defaultFromStyle(Typeface.BOLD));

            paint.setTextSize(35);

            Rect textRect = new Rect();
            paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), textRect);

            Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bm);


            //Calculate the positions
    //        int xPos = (canvas.getWidth() / 2) - 2;     //-2 is for regulating the x position offset

            //"- ((paint.descent() + paint.ascent()) / 2)" is the distance from the baseline to the center.
    //        int yPos = (int) ((canvas.getHeight() / 2) - ((paint.descent() + paint.ascent()) / 2)) ;

            canvas.drawText(text, canvas.getHeight() + 2, canvas.getHeight() + 2, paint);

            return  bm;
        } 

Answer 1

There are several sources for icons, and Places API provides enough details so that you can pick the right icon for each place. I'm not familiar with Android though, so I'll only touch lightly on that.

The way things are today, I'd sayd the trick is to find a dependable set of icons you can work with.

1. Safest option may be Place API's own icons. At least in the web service, each place as an icon field that points to a URL. Being part of a supported API, I'd feel most comfortable depending on these icons ─ save for having my own icons. Here's the one for bars:

2. If you like them, and don't mind that they may go away some day without notice, you could use the deprecated Chart API's Freestanding Icons. At least this ones will only change once: from being available to no longer being available. They don't look particularly good though:

3. If you really really want the same icons used in Google Maps search results, and enjoy living on edge, you could hack their URLs out of Google Maps. Beware: these may change at any time, so you might one day wake up to no icons! ─ and it may change often, not just once.

However, if you're using Places API for Android, I can imagine you're looking for a solution based off of the Places API web service.

It looks like the Place object has no getIcon() or anything similar, so you'd need to come up with your own mapping from the output of getPlaceTypes() to icons. I think it'd be reasonable to ask Google to add a getIcon() method that would do this for you, so I recommend filing a feature request for it.