How to disable pinch in Android MapView

Question

How can you disable pinch or multitouch functionality in an Android MapView?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '13 at 06:36

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Disable all Gestures:

mapView.getMap().getUiSettings().setAllGesturesEnabled(false);

Disable just Zoom

mapView.getMap().getUiSettings().setZoomControlsEnabled(false);

answered Dec 24 '13 at 06:36

Taranfx

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '11 at 13:43

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It took me a little time but I have a solution for this. What I did is stop the event propagation if more than one finger is touching the screen.

mapView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            if(event.getPointerCount() > 1) {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

answered Jan 07 '11 at 13:43

Alexander Stolz

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I found out that when you use `mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);`, `onTouch()` is only called once (the first time), so this method is useless... Do you think it's a MapView bug? – Murphy Apr 20 '11 at 23:37
I can't really tell. In my application I had setBuiltInZoomControls on false and implemented my own controls. – Alexander Stolz May 27 '11 at 08:43
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i have tried this, it does not work if you are using built in zoom controls – user590849 Aug 26 '11 at 11:54
there has to be another solution for this – user590849 Aug 26 '11 at 11:54
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+1 Yes this is the one! It gets called on my device every time the user attempts to use two fingers to do ... well whatever :). Thanks to this solution tapping still works - Great ! – AgentKnopf Apr 21 '12 at 20:54
yea this is the only way to do it. – gregm Jul 23 '12 at 18:04

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 29 '15 at 08:08

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final UiSettings uiSettings = map.getUiSettings();
uiSettings.setZoomControlsEnabled(true);
uiSettings.setZoomGesturesEnabled(false);

answered Sep 29 '15 at 08:08

Mark Pazon

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score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 01 '15 at 09:06

Here is a little trick to fool pinch zoom :P (set a Zoom level and set the same level as maxZoom

var myOptions1 = { 
            //Coordinates of the map's center
            center: new google.maps.LatLng(152,125), 
            //Zoom level
            zoom: 15, // or any level of zoom you want to preload your map
            maxZoom:15 // same as the zoom value makes sure the map is not zoomed,

//Other options are as per your requirements

How to disable pinch in Android MapView

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