title: How does Android Studio display an offline map using osmdroid and mbtiles
body: <p>We are working on an android app that has to display an offline map of one specific location (say 3-7 neighboring islands). We successfully displayed the whole world, but that is too heavy. And when the phone is offline, the map has limited zooming (becomes blurry and it starts lagging).</p>
  
  <p>I envisioned the app to be like Maps.me, wherein if you're offline, you get continuous zooming-in of a downloaded map. Been trying to get my head around <a href="https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/wiki/Offline-Map-Tiles" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/wiki/Offline-Map-Tiles</a> and after 2 and a half days, I was able to get mbtiles using Maperitive.
  But from there, I'm confused on what the next step is. From the github tutorial, I'm stuck here: <a href="https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/wiki/Offline-Map-Tiles#using-offline-tile-archives" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/wiki/Offline-Map-Tiles#using-offline-tile-archives</a>
  Does this mean I have to manually put the mbtiles to the path or is there a way to store and use the mbtiles automatically (or through code) ?</p>
  
  <p>I just started learning about osm and android studio a few weeks ago and I need help. Badly. Someone please enlighten me.</p>