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What do you mean by "share"? You mean take a screenshot of it?

You can already have a reference to the MapView simply by instantiating it on your own. Please do not forget to forward events (onCreate, onPause, etc.) to it.

For taking a screenshot you normally use a Bitmap to be drawn on by the view. This does not work with the API v2 as it uses OpenGL. Thus the outcome Bitmap is a just black.

It's possible via android build-in command like what eclipse DDMS "screen capture" did. The problem is the authority to execute the command.

Hope the next release can enhance this to take screen capture on google map v2.

Thanks...

Yes, this was exactly what I was trying to do a few minutes ago. Didn't work.
Please guys, add such a functionality!

I am developing an application in which this is a necessary and pivotal function; if this action is not possible then the majority of the app would be useless.  Currently, the app uses Google Maps API v2, and I would really hate to have to downgrade back to Google Maps API v1 for this one function.

i am developing an application in which this is a necessary .

Re #2: I don't know what the MapsV2 lib does internally, but it has no GLSurfaceView in the client's app. I suspect they render it in another app and bit-copy over the results into a private, from plain SurfaceView derived view that you can access in your app. I'd really like to see this to get https://code.google.com/p/robotium/issues/detail?id=462 supported.

#9 - we essentially use a GLSurfaceView. It's a slightly modified version, though, so gets obfuscated by proguard.

We added GoogleMap.snapshot:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/GoogleMap

Note that the bitmap returned by snapshot cannot be sent off the device - use it for things like thumbnails or in notifications. See the docs for more complete information on how you can use snapshots.

Thank you very much!

Many thanks!

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Just update from ADT, the google-play-services.jar is created on 2013-07-24. Is this the right version, did not see the method "snapshot()".

Thanks...

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Nope, it looks like nothing has been released yet :( Still waiting ...

Sorry all - looks like we (the Maps team) launched a bit early. The client should come through the SDK Manager in the next day or so. You'll see announcements from the Android team.

Thanks very much !

Just want to understand the terms of "off device" - per the original request,  currently the user can take a snapshot of the screen pressing hardware buttons.  this feature which has been added now allows the ability to capture a bitmap programatically.  Are the terms such that the original use case in the original request is not allowed, ie, a screenshot of the activity which is composed of the map view + other views is not allowed to be put in the gallery on the device and emailed?

Clarification around this would be fantastic and appreciated, as we do not want to break the rules.

I would also appreciate further clarification about what is allowed to do with the image.

"use it for things like thumbnails" means it is allowed to store thumbnails off-device? E.g. a thumbnail of a track to be stored together with a track file on Google Drive, so that in the file listing the user sees the thumbnails. What is then the maximum pixel size to be considered a thumbnail?

I would suppose any restriction will be due to Google's rights on the map data, rather than the API, so if using a TileProvider with non-Google maps there is no restriction?

OK, the "snapshot" is fine now. And my problem is the same with #21.

THANKS...

How about #21, #22 ? Thanks...

Would it be possible to use this feature to embed a thumbnail in an online video, while respecting the Attribution Clause and this specific point from Google Maps Guidelines?

"In all online video cases, you must show attribution to both Google and our data providers on-screen at the time the content is shown. You may not move the attribution to the end credits or fade it out after a few seconds. We cannot grant an exception to this requirement under any circumstance. Please see our attribution page for more information."

Thanks

any current solution to make a screenshot of the whole screen (maps + layouts, textviews, imageviews, etc) ???