Android MapView with High Res tiles?

I have created a simple map app that shows the local garage sales in my town. It was simple enough to create and I parse out the Google Maps (html) xml doc that the local paper uses on their google maps mashup on their website.

I have noticed that the Map Tiles used in the MapView class are not as high-res as the tiles used in the real Android Google Maps app (I have a Droid). I have searched the docs and google, 开发者_如何学Gobut I cannot find any info on this. Actually, I can't even find anyone mentioning this, which surprises me and makes me think I am missing something simple. Is this a case of Google making the APIs available, but at a lower quality, or am I missing some setting that enables higher quality map tiles?

You are not missing any settings. Google is in control over the map tiles that are supplied to the Google Maps add-on for Android. There may be technical or contractual reasons for their current implementation.

Sorry!

Ok, now that I have published my app to the app store it now has high res map tiles. What probably changed the behavior was that I added the <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7"/> tag to the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Other than that all I did was add a new menu icon, publish it and download it from the market instead of installing manually. Hope that helps someone.

I think high-res map tiles was added in Android 1.6 (sdk = 4) along with the possibility to use high-, -medium and low-dpi images.