Bing Maps on Android

Hi,

As I understand it, there is/was a Bing Maps app but it does not work on Android versions 3.0 or higher.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15570495/bing-maps-on-android-emulator-works-but-not-on-device?rq=1

I cannot give you a definitive on when a Bing Map app would be available for Android phones. You might ask the question on the MSDN Forum (developer's forum)

No bing maps on andriod.  

Google Standard Oil busness practices apply. 

Nothing says freedom louder than being tracked by an Oil Kingdom owned oligoploy marketing company masqurading as a tech company with free service.  

Welcome to the surveillance state of censorship and big brother nudge marketing.  

Up side Microsoft Surface comes with LTE built in on some models.  So you can still take steps to leave the borge and not be assimilated.  

I was just forced to migrate away from Windows 10 Mobile (having been user since Windows Mobile 5) to an Android phone. It is a PITA compared to upgrading to new Windows phone as I have to setup each app individually as opposed to restoring my phone backup. Anyhow, since my Nokia 1520 battery is now u/s and no more Windows phones, I had little choice. I have found the Microsoft Launcher, installed Outlook and my Office apps so getting there.

The one thing I can't find is Bing Maps. I have years of places and also used my phone as satnav. I see quite a few questions here which result in a locked thread and a reference to Bing maps support. Over there, there is only a developers forum and no support for ordinary customers.

I try to visit bing.com/maps and it does not come up - even if I use Edge on the Android.

I am coming to the conclusion that there is no official Bing Maps application for Android. Am I right? If so, is there ever going to be one? I would really rather not spend days manually re-entering details and I would prefer not to give all my location data to Google. Is there an alternative?

Thanks

Android phones use Google Maps app which is part of the Google Play Services agreement that mandates default positioning and availability of Google Apps on these phones.

You cannot navigate to Bing Maps on the phone.

Pat/all -

Does "mandates default positioning and availability of Google Apps on these phones.
You cannot navigate to Bing Maps on the phone." mean (if true as of late Dec 2018) mean exclusive or just default?  Hoping someone can clarify on this. Moving forward, I fear 2019 may see this loyal MS user since windows 3.1/3.51 begin to abandon their platforms.  

Matt

The world is starting to recognise the voracious appetite of Google (and others) for your data, location, buying habits and so on plus the overpriced hype and locked-in OS/apps environment of Apple. MS is no longer the dark lord. Unfortunately there is no longer an alternate phone OS. If only you'd hung on.

I have downloaded Microsoft Launcher to my Android phone but the integration between it and my PC is nowhere near as good as the Windows version. It's not just apps and Bing but photos on OneDrive don't display as well and music is awful. The auto sync with OneDrive music doesn't work any more and when I used WMP to transfer some albums, it did an automatic conversion to wma which Play won't use.

Aaargh. Don't think Microsoft realised how much we'd miss all this good stuff. You should have been dominant in the "mobile / desktop environment" instead of trying to ape Apple.

If a Surface phone ever arrives … (let's have one with a proper keyboard - think Psion).

This is probably the best place to voice your opinion on the Development of Windows.

Sounds like an anti-trust issue.

There is a Here Maps app for Android. It used to be available on Windows phone so you may be familiar.

For your saved places, if you log into Bing in a browser on your Android phone and click the menu icon in the upper right corner one of the options is My Places. Click that and you should see all of the places you saved to the maps app on your Windows phone. Clicking a saved place will give you a listing that usually includes a map link. Click that and it will open your saved place in Google maps. 

I am also a recent convert from Windows 10 Mobile to Android, using the Microsoft launcher to find Microsoft services and apps on Android .

From what I understand the current version of Bing M is a new UI pasted on top of here maps with which Microsoft has a 10-year agreement to use for free aps 

because of that here Maps was removed from Windows so that you would use Microsoft alternative

here Maps is the current only correct answer

also although Android does not let you set it as the default mapping app the Microsoft launcher and Cortana do

search for it in settings in the Microsoft launcher