Starting an Activity from ItemizedOverlay

I while back I wanted to be able to start an Activity from a class that extended ItemizedOverlay. Since ItemizedOverlay does not extend Activity I couldn't call startActivity() in order to start a new Activity when the onTap() method is executed.

So after much searching on the internet I found my answer. Only thing is I don't have enough "reputation" on stackoverflow to vote up this particular answer.

Simply calling Context.startActivity(Bundle myBundle); did the job!

I was following the example here: Hello MapView

Original post: StackOverflow post

Comments

  1. Ty CookMarch 28, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    I'm trying to do something similar. Would you mind sharing an example of the code you used to launch an activity from the ItimizedOVerlay?

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  2. Todd DeLandMarch 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    Sure, what is your email address?

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