How to insert KML file into android mapview?

Question

I have a bunch of kml files such as this one that I have been trying to insert into my app as a mapview overlay. I understand that I am supposed to parse this file in order to handle it. But I am not sure of the correct way to go about this. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Answer 1

It seems that the Android framework provides no helper to handle such case (ie. automatically drawing a KML file on a MapView). So you'll have to do it manually.

To draw a path on a mapview, you can refer to the following implementation provided in another stackoverflow question.