Google Geo Developers Blog: August 2016

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New JavaScript Street View renderer brings rendering improvements and better mobile support

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Better display Smoother Transitions

Old renderer	New renderer

Smoother Loading Animations

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Object modeling improvements

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Better mobile support WebGL imagerybrowsers that support it

Old renderer	New renderer

Touch support Motion tracking on mobile devicesdeveloper documentation Better controls X Forward

Next image targets	Next centered image target

Cleaner street names, labels and targets

Old renderer	New renderer

issue trackerdeveloper documentation

Posted by Elena Kelareva, Product Manager, Google Maps APIs

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Keep users focused on what's important with the latest Google Maps Android API

Monday, August 1, 2016

Track camera movements more accuratelyIssue 4636camera change eventscode sample Control the zooming, panning and scrolling experienceGoogleMap.setMinZoomPreference()GoogleMap.setMaxZoomPreference()Issue 4663GoogleMap.setLatLngBoundsForCameraTarget()

Pan and zoom limits on a map for Adelaide, a beautiful city in South Australia

setting boundaries on the mapcode sample Marker tagsassociate whatever data object you like with a markerIssue 4650issue trackerrelease notes

Posted by Megan Boundey, Product Manager, Google Maps Mobile APIs

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