Question

I have a class :

class MapItemizedOverlay extends com.google.android.maps.ItemizedOverlay<OverlayItem> { 
    private Context context;
    private ArrayList items = new ArrayList();

    public MapItemizedOverlay(Context aContext, Drawable marker) {
        super(boundCenterBottom(marker));
        context = aContext;
    }

    public void addOverlayItem(OverlayItem item) {
        items.add(item);
        populate();
    }

    @Override
    protected OverlayItem createItem(int i) {
        return (OverlayItem) items.get(i);
    }

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return items.size();
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean onTap(int index) {
       OverlayItem item = (OverlayItem) items.get(index);
       AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
       dialog.setTitle(item.getTitle());
       dialog.setMessage(item.getSnippet());
       dialog.show();
       return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTap (final GeoPoint p, final MapView mapView) {
        Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(getBaseContext(), Locale.getDefault());
        try {
            List<Address> addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(p.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6,
                        p.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6, 1);
            String address = "";
            if (addresses.size() > 0) {
            for (int i=0; i<addresses.get(0).getMaxAddressLineIndex(); i++)
                    address += addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(i) + "\n";
            }   
            address.cancel();
            address.setText(address);
            address.show(); 
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return true;
    }
}

I add some overlays on the map with the function:

private void initialiseOverlays() {
        // Create an ItemizedOverlay to display a list of markers
        Drawable defaultMarker = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.marker);
        MapItemizedOverlay mapItemizedOverlay = new MapItemizedOverlay(this, defaultMarker);

        mapItemizedOverlay.addOverlayItem(new OverlayItem(new GeoPoint((int) (12.345678 * 1E6), (int) (23.456789 * 1E6)), "Point 1", "some-random-text"));
        mapItemizedOverlay.addOverlayItem(new OverlayItem(new GeoPoint((int) (89.012345 * 1E6), (int) (67.890123 * 1E6)), "Point number 2", "more-random-text"));        
        // Add the overlays to the map
        mapView.getOverlays().add(mapItemizedOverlay);
      }

If only one of the onTap functions is defined everything works fine – I can either get the address if I click somewhere over the map or I can get a dialog with the place’s title and content if I click on the icon over the place.
But I want to have both of the functions working together, the application to detect if the click was over an empty place on the map or over a marker(the drawable set) and show it’s information. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Found the answer – had to include the:

if(super.onTap(p, mapView)) {
                return true;
            }

in the beginning of the public boolean onTap (final GeoPoint p, final MapView mapView) function.