osmdroid not centering/registering GeoPoint coordinates

Question

Unless I'm understanding this incorrectly, to initialize osmdroid around a given point you would do as following:

    map = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
    map.setTileSource(TileSourceFactory.MAPNIK);
    MapController mapController = (MapController)map.getController();

    GeoPoint startPoint = new GeoPoint(52370816, 9735936);
    mapController.animateTo(startPoint);
    map.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    mapController.setZoom(2);
    map.setUseDataConnection(true);
    map.setMultiTouchControls(true);

When I run this however, the map sorta does whatever it wants. It doesn't center on the given GeoPoint. Changing these numbers doesn't seem to do anything. Am I missing something?

My XML files are all in order as per the tutorials as are my permissions.

Answer 1

This is a known bug occuring when you set the map view in onCreate: https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/issues/22

Issue is closed because assumed to be fixed in source Head, but it's still not fixed in the 4.2 osmdroid release.

setCenter works fine once the mapview has been drawn once.

Various workarounds can be found in osmdroid project Issue.

Answer 2

Since 2014-06-24 Osmdroid has this

MapView.addOnFirstLayoutListener(new OnFirstLayoutListener() { ...});

which can be used to set initial zoom, mapcenter, ....