Question

We’re working on an Android application that shows information about parkings on a map. The problem is that the icons on the map are rendered with a “dark glow” around them.

If you see the image, the glow is surrounding most of the icons, but not all of them, and we can’t find any property (i.e.: highlight) that could be responsible for such behavior. All of the icons are on the same layer.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe, it is a drop shadow rather than border. Did you override draw method when extending ItemizedOverlay?

Try this:

    public class MyItemizedOverlay extends ItemizedOverlay
{
    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, boolean shadow)
    {
        if(!shadow)
        {
            super.draw(canvas, mapView, false);
        }
    }

    ....
}

Example taken from:
It is possible to remove the Shadow of the Icons (items) on a googlemap?
and Is it possible to use OverlayItem.setMarker() with no shadow?

Try that, make sure you declare @Override on draw method too.