Search list result from Google Maps on Android

Question

I'm trying to learn & use MIT App Inventor to interact with the Maps app. I've successfully created a button to alter the DataUri and then launch the maps app via StartActivity.

What I'm interested in is only the search functionality of maps, without launching the app itself. I want to submit some sort of query, and receive a list in return. Can this be done for regular search as well as directions?

Answer 1

you can do that with App Inventor and the web component in case there is a RESTful Google Maps API interface, did you already find something in one of the Google Map APIs which can supply what you want?

I have an example with the Static Maps API 2.0 and App Inventor, but without the web component, see here http://puravidaapps.com/snippets.php#maps2button

You might want to add "google-maps" as tag in your question...