Hello Earth Project

Now we will be building a Hello Earth project. Similar to your typical Hello World, we will be creating a basic project in Android Studio that displays a globe and map using WhirlyGlobe-Maply.

Note: You can check out the completed Android tutorial on Github. It includes the WhirlyGlobe-Maply library and everything you need–all you have to do is run it in Android Studio.

Start New Android Studio Project

Open Android Studio and select Start a new Android Studio project.

Hello Earth is a very basic app that is meant to get you started. Select an Empty Activity – no bells and whistles.

Name your application HelloEarth. Put this application somewhere outside of the WhirlyGlobe git repo.

We’re selecting the Minimum SDK to be API 28: Android 9.0 (Pie). WhirlyGlobe-Maply can go back much farther, so pick what you need.

Select Finish. You should see something similar to this.

WhirlyGlobe-Maply Distributions

At this point, you have started a new standard project, but you need to add WhirlyGlobe-Maply library as a dependency.

We distribute the WhirlyGlobe-Maply library for Android in a couple of ways ways. Either of them is fine. Pick the one you are most familiar with. Don’t care? Try the binary.

• Building from Source - Use the source the code to build your own binary.
• Building from Binary - Use the pre-built binaries.

It’s like a pick your own adventure book, but boring. So just like a pick your own adventure book.

Tutorial by Nicholas Hallahan, Steve Gifford, Tim Sylvester.