Android Mapping API SDK

Android Mapping API SDK has a free Google Maps package component. Nutiteq Mobile Mapping library has many extra features, compared to Google:

• Many extra map sources built-in: OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Navteq/MapTP, DigitalGlobe aerial, BLOM aerial, Bing/Microsoft and Yahoo maps. Google has only Google maps and satellite.
• Own map services can be used using WMS, TMS, Ka-Map or even own custom API-s
• Support for offline (stored and bundled) maps
• Draw lines and polygons on map in addition to point markers. Google enables only points.
• Use online or offline KML data as overlays
• Raster overlays (e.g. for traffic data)
• Routing service
• Geocoding service
• API compatibility with other Mobile Java platforms: Nutiteq SDK works also on Java ME (J2ME) and BlackBerry (both Midlet and CLDC API)
• No limitations on application types. Google does not allow some application types, and requires expensive enterprise licenses for e.g. asset tracking / fleet management applications

To get started with Android mapping, take a look to our Android Mapping Tutorial.

For Advanced uses see sample mapping application project https://bitbucket.org/nutiteq/android-map-samples . It shows many general Maps lib features, and some specific tricks in Android: how to show route instructions, how to implement Search with Android API, even SpatiaLite and Proj.4 NDK integrations etc. You can also download pre-compiled Nutiteq SDK demo app to your phone from Android Market.