Hide infoWindow when clicked marker second time (Google Map Android API V2)

Question

To achieve this I feel I simply need to override onMarkerClick and check if the infoWindow of clicked marker has already been open, but to my surprise clickedMarker.isInfoWindowShown() always return false...

My codes:

@Override
public boolean onMarkerClick(final Marker clickedMarker) {
    if(clickedMarker.isInfoWindowShown()) {
        clickedMarker.hideInfoWindow();
        System.out.println("was showing");
    } else {
        clickedMarker.showInfoWindow();
        System.out.println("not showing");
    }
}

It always tells me the infoWindow is "not showing" which is not right... I can get around this by keeping a reference of userLastClickedMarker but I'd like to know where I did wrong above.

Thanks!

Edit:

I changed my code to debug this issue:

    System.out.println(clickedMarker.isInfoWindowShown());
    if(clickedMarker.isInfoWindowShown()) {
        clickedMarker.hideInfoWindow();
        System.out.println(" showing");
    } else {
        clickedMarker.showInfoWindow();
        System.out.println("not showing");
    }
    System.out.println(clickedMarker.isInfoWindowShown());

I found that isInfoWindowShown() does work correctly in onMarkerClick method but won't 'remember' it correctly. And I found this has been pointed out as a bug by someone already...

https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=5408

Answer 1

isInfoWindowShown always false, so I hide info window using the basic way

int mLastIndex = -1

and on

@Override
public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {   
    int index = (int) marker.getTag();
    Log.i(TAG, "onMarkerClick: " + index);
    if(lastIndex != index){
        marker.showInfoWindow();
        lastIndex = index;
    }else{
        marker.hideInfoWindow();
        lastIndex = -1;
    }

    return true;
}

Answer 2

I had the same issue and I found a simple solution by declaring a global boolean variable and switching its value when user clicks on a marker. Here's my code:

private boolean isInfoWindowShown = false;

   map.setOnMarkerClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnMarkerClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {

            if (!isInfoWindowShown) {

                marker.showInfoWindow();
                map.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(marker.getPosition()));
                isInfoWindowShown = true;
            } else {

                marker.hideInfoWindow();
                isInfoWindowShown = false;
            }

           return true;
        }
    });

Hope this will help somebody.