Drop Pin on Default Google Maps from My App in Android?

Posted by Praveen Chandrasekaran on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Praveen Chandrasekaran
Published on 2010-04-21T13:29:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 17:33 UTC
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hi all,

i have an address for a location. when i click some button in my app. it should redirect to default google map in android and drop the pin to that particular location. how to do that? Any Idea?

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