Animating the camera
In the previous sections, we used the moveCamera()
method on the GoogleMap
object. It changes the camera and updates the view immediately. You may have noted that, during the transformation, there is no animation and it is not smooth. So, in order to make smoother transformations, we need to use animations.
Using animation is very simple. Replace the moveCamera()
method with the animateCamera()
method. It would be similar to:
map.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.scrollBy(10,0));
To get more control over the animation, we can use the same animateCamera()
method with more parameters. They are as follows:
- The CameraUpdate object: This is the first parameter, which is same as the one used in the
moveCamera()
method. - Duration: This ...
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