Ability to render GroundOverlays on top of map content such as buildings about android-maps-compose HOT 4 OPEN

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Have you tried specifying the zIndex in the GroundOverlay function to be higher than 0f(the default)?

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@lucanicoletti yes I did test changing the zIndex to a few different non-zero values including Float.MAX_VALUE and buildings still render on top of the GroundOverlay.

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Oh and one other point of context to add to that, in the Maps Android SDK documentation for Shapes in the Z-index section they state the following:

The z-index specifies the stack order of this shape, relative to other overlays (other shapes, ground overlays and tile overlays) on the map. An overlay with a high z-index is drawn above overlays with lower z-indexes. Two overlays with the same z-index are drawn in an arbitrary order.

Note that markers are always drawn above other overlays, regardless of the z-index of the other overlays.

This is referring to shapes, but I would infer the behavior is the same for other overlay types and in this case for GroundOverlay. So the way I see it, the zIndex is meant to layer with regards to other overlays but has no effect when non-overlay elements are displayed like buildings or (as they mentioned) map markers.

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