Heading mode Rotating Map

Question

I'm using SKMaps v3.0 SDK for Android and I try to change the user Heading mode into Rotating_Map in order to let the user able to rotate map with heading position.

Here is my code :

    private void followTheUserWithHeading(int transitionTime){
    mapView.getMapSettings().setCurrentPositionShown(true);
    mapView.getMapSettings().setFollowPositions(true);
    mapView.getMapSettings().setHeadingMode(SKMapSettings.SKHeadingMode.ROTATING_MAP);
    mapView.animateToBearing(1.0f,true,transitionTime);
    mapView.centerOnCurrentPosition(17,true,500);
}

With followTheUserWithHeading() being called in onRouteCalculationCompleted method.

Unfortunately, the map does not rotate with mobile phone orientation.

N.B. : the user cone is visible, which is not the case when using SKHeadingMode.ROUTE. So it seems my code is not completely crap ... I also tried ROTATING_HEADING but not better.

Thank you very much :)

Answer 1

Okay, I finally found a solution to my problem ...

This was not a matter of pedestrian mode. In order to make the ROTATIN_MAP works, you have to implement all sensor event.

See in Android demo project for further details, but here is look to code snippet

 private void setHeading(boolean enabled) {
    if (enabled) {
        headingOn = true;
        mapView.getMapSettings().setHeadingMode(SKHeadingMode.ROTATING_MAP);
        startOrientationSensor();
    } else {
        headingOn = false;
        mapView.getMapSettings().setHeadingMode(SKMapSettings.SKHeadingMode.NONE);
        stopOrientationSensor();
    }
}

/**
 * Activates the orientation sensor
 */
private void startOrientationSensor() {
    orientationValues = new float[3];
    SensorManager sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);
    Sensor orientationSensor = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION);
    sensorManager.registerListener(this, orientationSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI);
}

/**
 * Deactivates the orientation sensor
 */
private void stopOrientationSensor() {
    orientationValues = null;
    SensorManager sensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE);
    sensorManager.unregisterListener(this);
}

Answer 2

This feature is available only in Pedestrian Navigation.

Answer 3

This feature works only when the pedestrian navigation mode is used (set it by using a call like navigationSettings.setNavigationMode(SKNavigationSettings.SKNavigationMode.PEDESTRIAN);) In order to enable the feature you need to make sure that you call mapView.getMapSettings().setHeadingMode(SKMapSettings.SKHeadingMode.ROTATING_MAP); just after the navigation is started (navigationManager.startNavigation(navigationSettings);) I have attached a video below showing the working functionality: https://www.dropbox.com/s/onnsbeavldxvdpu/20161221_PedestrianNavigation_RotatingMap.mp4?dl=0