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Brett Klugman
2,147 PointsBuilding an App with map features
I finished the Android development track and want to build an app where users can mark specific locations on the map for other users? Any advice on how to get started with this?
2 Answers
Nick Edwards
Courses Plus Student 15,766 PointsHi Brett,
Google provides a pretty good tutorial for its Maps API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/
As Michael pointed out, combining this with Parse could be a pretty good idea. Since the Google Maps API works with Latitude-Longitude values in a pretty straight-forward way, you could use Parse to save users as ParseUsers, map locations as ParseObjects and then associate the two using ParseRelations.
michaelpavle
555 PointsMaybe you could connect your app to some online maps using parse.com