Android, BT 1,5 In Advanced map properties I have chosen "Show the users location" and "yes" on Show user location button. In the device the map is showed but not the users location. If I hit the map where the device is located there is a popup text "Your are here" but no icon on the map. Also when I in device chose "Show my location" nothing happens. Any ideas?

I think its a know bug (at least discussed) I haven't found a solution, but have found that BT does user location in a weird way, and not typical android fashion (from what I have read). I might try to hack around a bit and see if I can fix it. Will post if I figure it out.

Zackamo, I have an BTv1.5 app that shows user location and one that doesn't. If comparing the source code would help I'd be happy to send it to you. Why it shows user location in one but not the other I haven't figured out. Fred

interesting..... very interesting. I feel like I got to work on my first app when playing around, from then I haven't been able to get it to work.. Before you send source, did you get your map api keys in the same way when building the app, oh have you always used keytool (if you do).

I use keytool. I have a detailed step-by-step for using keytool on my site. The only thing missing is why show my location is not working in some apps. GoNorthWest has a how-to using the command line. Fred

See I have done both... And although the api keys are the same, your steps along the way are just slightly different. However if you have used keytool twice, and different results then I can eliminate that. It doesn't really make sense that two different apps would cause it to break... One problem we are going to run into is that the code for location goes through a couple couple of screens deep, so we might have to do a comparative of a few screens. Let me figure out what screens I might need and we can go from there.

No, the app that show the 'my location' isn't setup with an API Key. Fred

If you don't have any API key, how is it even showing a google map?

It's not showing the map, just the locations. Fred

Well interesting, I wonder if its putting that api key that is killing the process. On your app that has location, could you try putting the api key to see if that takes it out.. (this might be why I remember it working.. it was pre api key)

I'm not touching that file until I duplicate. Maybe it just a matter of using a map screen without using the API? Was there a change in the code by Buzztouch? Many questions, haven't had time to figure it out. Fred

They don't use the customary way to find device location which is a simple call and you get the blue dot / arrow. They manually find it, store it, then add a custom layer. My guess is since you don't have an api, its not actually doing anything, all its doing is showing two layers that you have active. Only way we could possibly prove that is for you to add a location to your map very far away from you and other location. My goal was to force mapview to use the proper technique for location, but failed on my first attempt awhile back. I'll try again this weekend.

I have a location: Downtown Nashville It showing ''My Location'' accurately. I'm headed to a new location and I'll double check. (I think I've check before.) Fred

So then I have to believe the api is what is killing us, or layer isn't getting put on top of the map.. This should help me try to track down the bug this weekend (if i am smart enough to).

Sorry, no luck. At new location an it's still showing old location with accurate phone icon. At some point it read the device type and my location. This data was never entered by me. I don't remember if I ever opened the app in a virtual device. I don't think I did. Tried refresh the app but it's locking up when I do. Fred

I tried running the app on device, thru Eclipse and without the API. Same result. The device has a location but no pin. BT; "The user's location can be highlighted (with a blue pin) when the map loads" I searched for "blue" in BT config.txt but there was no reference to a blue pin. Maybe it's just that it's a bug in the code? Lots of references to pincolor "red".

Welp... Out of curiosity what version of BT are we using.. Just finally got a map in my 2.0 test app and sure enough I get device location with api and everything. I know I don't have location in my 1.5 app, so perhaps its fixed in 2.0? I will on initial load, it appears as if I am in the wrong location, but as I zoom in it becomes approximate. So definitely not perfect. I am still going to try to hack in the correct way to do location. Let me know yalls BT version, as this should help us narrow down where the problem is.

I have a map on BTv1.5 Guess I'll have a map in BTv2.0 tomorrow. Fred

Boom. Android way of doing current location. Add this code: me=new MyLocationOverlay(this, mapView); mapView.getOverlays().add(me); me.enableMyLocation(); to the if statement area here: // add device location if we have it and showUserLocation != "0" By adding it to the if statement, we should allow for enabling from console. I nuked all of the user location stuff so the phone won't come up. It should be noted that you are stuck with the blue dot. No custom stuff, but this is a bit cleaner in my opinion. I might consider rebuilding the plugin to add this as an option, since that is one of the joys of BT..

Using BT v1,5 Where to add Your Code, in witch file?

Sorry. Totally forgot what screen. It appears like 2.0 and 1.5 it will be the same. BT_screen_map.java Search for the comment above but looks like to be around line 745ish.

Thanks Zackamo. Not like this? //add device location if we have it and showUserLocation != "0" me=new MyLocationOverlay(this, mapView); mapView.getOverlays().add(me); me.enableMyLocation(); if(tmpLatitude.length() > 4 && !showUserLocation.equalsIgnoreCase("0")){ It give me errors.

aight... We need to add some declarations, sorry I forgot that.. Go to where all the variables are being called at the top, and add private MyLocationOverlay me=null; Also you want to add the original code after the if statement opens. So like this. //add device location if we have it and showUserLocation != "0" if(tmpLatitude.length() > 4 && !showUserLocation.equalsIgnoreCase("0")){ me=new MyLocationOverlay(this, mapView); mapView.getOverlays().add(me); me.enableMyLocation(); If for some reason it doesn't work, change tmpLatitude.length() > 4 to tmpLatitude.length() > 0 In all reality you can put the code I gave you it almost any of the main functions for this file and it should work. My goal was to have it play with current buzztouch thought process correctly. Perhaps once we can push plugins more, I'll release a modification to use MyLocationOverlay or Buzztouch one as option in the backend.

Shall private MyLocationOverlay me=null; be placed at public class BT_screen_map extends MapActivity{ ? I get "MyLocationOverlay cannot be resolved to a type" error for every code-line

Can't get it to work. Had a programmer look at the file and entered the code but it didn´t work. Eclipse says "MyLocationOverlay cannot be resolved to a type". Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having the same issue in 2.0, with the same error as above. Any idea on a fix?

With the MyLocationOverlay cannot be resoled error - have your tried importing; "import com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay;"