Don't snap to marker after click in android map v2

Question

Currently Android Map v2 snaps to marker location after click. I want to disable this behavior but see no options to do it.

Does anybody know how to fix that?

Answer 1

Based on what I read from the Markers - Google Maps Android API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/marker#marker_click_events)

Marker click events

You can use an OnMarkerClickListener to listen for click events on the marker. To set this listener on the map, call GoogleMap.setOnMarkerClickListener(OnMarkerClickListener). When a user clicks on a marker, onMarkerClick(Marker) will be called and the marker will be passed through as an argument. This method returns a boolean that indicates whether you have consumed the event (i.e., you want to suppress the default behavior). If it returns false, then the default behavior will occur in addition to your custom behavior. The default behavior for a marker click event is to show its info window (if available) and move the camera such that the marker is centered on the map.

You could likely override this method and have it only open the marker and return true to consume the event.

// Since we are consuming the event this is necessary to
// manage closing opened markers before opening new ones
Marker lastOpened = null;

mMap.setOnMarkerClickListener(new OnMarkerClickListener() {
    public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {
        // Check if there is an open info window
        if (lastOpened != null) {
            // Close the info window
            lastOpened.hideInfoWindow();

            // Is the marker the same marker that was already open
            if (lastOpened.equals(marker)) {
                // Nullify the lastOpened object
                lastOpened = null;
                // Return so that the info window isn't opened again
                return true;
            } 
        }

        // Open the info window for the marker
        marker.showInfoWindow();
        // Re-assign the last opened such that we can close it later
        lastOpened = marker;

        // Event was handled by our code do not launch default behaviour.
        return true;
    }
});

This is untested code but that may be a workable solution.

Thanks, DMan