Some twists of using Google Maps in your Android app - Part 1: Smart follow

Following the user's location only when he hasn't panned the map away (as otherwise the view will animate back to the current location every now and then, providing quite a frustrating experience) is a commonly used functionality in applications with maps (say, tracking your route and such). I kinda feel there should be an out-of-the-box method for this in Google Maps SDK, but whatever, here you go if you want to implement it.