Feature List
The main features offered by the SDK for Android are listed below.
Note: Not all features are enabled by default. The features available to you are determined based on your business plan.
Note: The SDK for Android is designed for standalone Android APK development. If you plan to use the HERE SDK for platform-embedded app development (apps that ship with the device ROM), see Service Support to contact us for more details .
Mapping:
- Dynamically download vector maps for more than 190 countries in over 60 languages
- Preload maps for offline usage
- Map styles: normal street map, satellite map, transit map, and more
- Textured 3D landmarks
- Touch gestures (including rotate, tilt, pan, flick, and pinch zoom)
- Overlay objects on the map such as polylines, polygons, icons, and routes
- Map marker clusters
- Overlay 3D map objects
- Overlay custom raster tiles on the map (for example, to display heat maps)
- Ability to render raster tiles and map objects interleaved within different map layers
- Show real-time traffic flow and incidents
- 3D extruded buildings
- Transit object interaction
Search:
- Search through a broad set of geographical content across the globe (including streets, address points, and categorized places)
- Search for a specific place or explore by categories
- Access rich details for a Point of Interest from third-party content sources (including images, ratings, reviews, and editorials)
- Perform geocoding and reverse geocoding lookups
- Offline Places search, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding
Directions:
- Online Car, Public Transit, Bicycle, Truck, Scooter and Pedestrian Route Directions
- Specify preferred route type (fastest or shortest) and route options (such as avoiding toll roads, motorways, and parks)
- Alternate routes
- Saving a route as a file
- Offline route calculation
- Driving directions with traffic taken into account
- Public Transit directions using online timetables information
- Indoor routing
Turn-by-turn Navigation:
- Turn-by-turn navigation for pedestrian, car, scooter and truck routes
- Natural-sounding guidance instructions, such as "turn left at the gas station" and "at the next light, turn right"
- Recorded audio and speech synthesis voices in a variety of languages. For a list of the available languages, see the Developer's Guide.
- Approximate user coordinates to the nearest road or navigation route
- Approximate user tunnel position, even when there is no GPS signal
- Dynamic information including signposts, the driver's current street lane information, and speed
- Realistic previews of certain junctions and lanes
HERE Positioning:
- Wi-Fi, Cellular, and BT network-based positioning including:
- Online Outdoor positioning
- Online-Offline Hybrid Outdoor positioning
- Indoor positioning
- Private Indoor positioning
LiveSight:
- Track the position of a device in space and animate view accordingly
- Seamless transitions from Map to LiveSight and back again
- Gesture support allows the user to interact with content, custom gestures can also be defined
- Content transitions and interaction are animated using hardware acceleration
- "Radar" UI support, which provides the user with more context regarding their position relative to content
- Highly configurable LiveSight engine allows the user experience to be customized
Other Features:
- Custom location and custom location geometry search
- Support for fleet dispatching and connectivity
- Map information for fleet vehicles and trucks
- Congestion toll zones and the typical traffic patterns for a given time of the week
- Ability to retrieve the toll cost of a route
