A short tutorial has been released by Pocket Journey, an Android project in development which describes itself as an “online travel community supporting micro-publishing of high quality location-aware content.”. The tutorial itself explains how to draw transparent panels on top of Android panels, in this case, MapView. It includes code examples and a project file.
Out of all of the projects being announced for Android (or for the iPhone SDK), geotagging photos, notes, and documents seems to be the big feature. While it certainly is the largest advancement that the new breed of mobile phones has to offer, I am curious how large the space will be for startups to jump in and fulfill users geotagging needs. I look forward to my expectations being blown away when the phones are released later this year.
Source: Tutorial 1: Transparent Panel (Linear Layout) on MapView (Google Map) [blog.pokerjourney.com]
