Guidelines for Android Google Maps v2 about android-cheatsheet-for-graphic-designers

[petrnohejl]

Hi Tobias. I don't know much about this. I think there are some build-in pin icons in Google Maps lib, which can be used and customized.

[johnjohndoe]

I believe this would still be an interesting topic. I hope somebody surfs along who knows more about this. To start with I point to BitmapDescriptorFactory which allows adding predefined markers with a limited selection of colors.

[petrnohejl]

OK. I reopen this issue. Let me know if you find some interesting info about it...

[johnjohndoe]

In the project android-maps-extensions @mg6maciej uses icons for the clustering which are 53 x 52px.

[johnjohndoe]

I posted this discussion on Google+ to invite more people to the discussion.

[mg6maciej]

Hey guys,
I'm not sure map icons are generic enough to be a good fit for what this project is all about.
Anyway the icons mentioned by Tobias I simply took from markerclusterer javascript project here: https://code.google.com/p/google-maps-utility-library-v3/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fmarkerclusterer%2Fimages and it was only for demo app purposes.
I never thought of using specific sizes and as you can notice all m1 to m5 images have different sizes.
I don't even think they need to be of a size that makes them easily tappable, because the API doesn't seem to be using image size for touch area (call it a feature or a bug).
Just my 3 cents ;)