Apple maps is terrible.

[famousringo]

superchunk said:

famousringo said:

I'll admit, I'm quite surprised. I've always been told that tight Google Everything integration was a big feature of Android, but it seems they missed out on Maps.

So if you have an app that (for example) points to a location on a map inside the app, is there no Android API for that and the app dev is on his/her own? Or does the API somehow pass the request to whichever map you have set as default?

The Google integration for all its services really comes down to your personalization, usage, and history; not OS forced defaults. Two vastly different featuresets. Google integration among services simply makes life easier to say email a document you have in your Drive account, or share a song via Google+ with a circle, or searching on YouTube that takes into account your search history on Google.

If you have a map location in say the browser or email or sms/mms, the phone will prompt you to open one of your potentially many maps applications. Granted if you only have Google Maps, it opens that, or if you've set one to be the default it will open that one. But, you have the choice to define it to best fit your needs.

Android is all about flexibility and allowing you to create the experience you want.

Ah, so there is no maps API for Android. Developers can either pass location data to another app or work something out on their own. Interesting.