title: displaying google map as a circle
body: <p>I am using a GoogleMapSupport fragment in the xml view of one of my activities.  The fragment is just 150x150dip square currently in the corner of my view.  I was wondering if there is an efficient way to MASK the map fragment so that it appears as circle instead of a a square.  I have looked aroud and found this post : <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14830930/android-masking-background-with-round-gradient-shape">Android masking background with round gradient shape</a></p>
  
  <p>But That seems to be an example using canvas and the view i want to actually mask is a MapSupportFragment..  below is an image showing what i'd like to achieve if at all possible and my current xml layout.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/374jB.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
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  <pre><code>&lt;FrameLayout
      android:id="@+id/arFrame"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
      android:layout_alignParentTop="true" &gt;
  &lt;/FrameLayout&gt;
  
  &lt;TextView
      android:id="@+id/textViewLocation"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="20dp"
      android:text="no signal"
      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /&gt;
  
      &lt;fragment
          android:id="@+id/map"
          android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"
  
          android:layout_width="150dip"
          android:layout_height="150dip"
          android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
          class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment" /&gt;
  
  &lt;com.KingNozzle.Views.KNMultiDirectionalSlidingDrawer
      xmlns:my="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.KingNozzle"
      android:id="@+id/drawer"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      my:content="@+id/content"
      my:direction="topToBottom"
      my:handle="@+id/handle" &gt;
  
      &lt;include
          android:id="@id/content"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent"
          layout="@layout/empty_rel" /&gt;
  
      &lt;ImageView
          android:id="@id/handle"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="40px"
          android:src="@drawable/sliding_drawer_handle_bottom" /&gt;
  &lt;/com.KingNozzle.Views.KNMultiDirectionalSlidingDrawer&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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