Question

Is there any way to customize the map annotation bubbles in Appcelerator Titanium? Specifically, I’d like them to be able to display more text than what they show (ideally, by expanding to fit the text). I know I can make them clickable and take the user to a page with more info, but I simply don’t have enough information to warrant that. It’s basically just the title text is too long (and I can’t change the text itself, it comes from sources I have no control over).

Alternatively (if customizing what’s there isn’t an option), is there an easy way to do custom bubbles? I don’t really want to have to reinvent the wheel and rewrite the pins themselves and their event handlers, but if it comes down to it (and someone can point me to some code that can get me started, since I know if it’s required, someone’s done it), then so be it.

iPhone-specific options are fine.

Answer 1

At this moment the latest Titanium SDK gives you such possibilities for annotation bubble customization:

1. Add subtitle for the bubble (subtitle option). You will see additional text under the title. On Android subtitle can be multiline (using ‘\n’).
2. Add left and right view to the bubble (leftView\rightView options). You can add custom view to the left or right part of the bubble. And view can consist of different elements (label, image…).

Read more here.

If this is enough for your task – you can use it. But for deeper customization you must create your own view and show it on annotation click event.