{"id":403,"date":"2012-11-03T12:38:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T11:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/?p=403"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T11:38:33","slug":"introduction-to-polaris-by-cyril-mottier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2012\/11\/03\/introduction-to-polaris-by-cyril-mottier\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Polaris by Cyril Mottier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Cyril Mottier&#8217;s talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cyrilmottier\/Polaris\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris<\/a> on the 1st day of DroidCon UK 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cyrilmottier\/Polaris\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris<\/a> is a mapping library for Android. It was created because with the current Google Maps API it is painful to even do simple stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Some features of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cyrilmottier\/Polaris\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gesture support<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple tap (opens a call out)<\/li>\n<li>Double tap (zoom in or zoom to the maximum zoom level for the location)<\/li>\n<li>Long press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>(Map) Annotations<\/strong> with a &#8220;variable anchor&#8221; (the arrow\/pointer of the annotation is dynamically placed based on the location&#8217;s position on screen).<\/p>\n<p>Demo: <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.cyrilmottier.android.polarissample\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris Sample<\/a> @ Google Play Store.<br \/>\nSource code: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cyrilmottier\/Polaris\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris<\/a> @ Github.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Polaris may become obsolete as Google is working on a new Maps API for Android.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Cyril Mottier&#8217;s talk about Polaris on the 1st day of DroidCon UK 2012. Polaris is a mapping library for Android. It was created because with the current Google Maps API it is painful to even do simple stuff. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2012\/11\/03\/introduction-to-polaris-by-cyril-mottier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[114,113,115],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","tag-droidcon","tag-droidconuk","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}