Question: I haven't found an answer in my search, there are a few answers on SO but they didn't work for me.

I have 2 markers on the map and I am using LatLngBounds builder in order to let the camera zoom to the right zoom level to include them both. Everything works as expected aside one thing, when the 2 markers are really close to each other, the map is very very zoomed and well, it doesn't make any sense to have this level of zooming.

```
LatLngBounds.Builder builder = new LatLngBounds.Builder();
builder.include(firstMarker.getPosition());
builder.include(secondMarker.getPosition());
LatLngBounds bounds = builder.build();

CameraUpdate cu = CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngBounds(bounds, markerPadding);

```

Is there a way to force a certain level of zoom, after which the camera won't zoom ? This would avoid having the map too zoomed in/out. Basically I am using 15.0f as level of zoom. If the points are too far away I want the zoom to fit them both. If points are getting close I don't want the zoom level to go beyond 15.0f.

Answer: 
I have a similar case, where I want at least a map diagonal of 2 kilometers.
Therefore I just add two additional points to the builder: the first 1 km north-west of the center of the original bounds and the second 1 km south-east of the center. If these are inside the bounds, they do not change anything. If they are outside of the original bounds, they increase the bounds to a meaningful size.

Here is a full code example:

```
public LatLngBounds createBoundsWithMinDiagonal(MarkerOptions firstMarker, MarkerOptions secondMarker) {
    LatLngBounds.Builder builder = new LatLngBounds.Builder();
    builder.include(firstMarker.getPosition());
    builder.include(secondMarker.getPosition());

    LatLngBounds tmpBounds = builder.build();
    /** Add 2 points 1000m northEast and southWest of the center.
     * They increase the bounds only, if they are not already larger
     * than this. 
     * 1000m on the diagonal translates into about 709m to each direction. */
    LatLng center = tmpBounds.getCenter();
    LatLng northEast = move(center, 709, 709);
    LatLng southWest = move(center, -709, -709);
    builder.include(southWest);
    builder.include(northEast);
    return builder.build();     
}

private static final double EARTHRADIUS = 6366198;
/**
 * Create a new LatLng which lies toNorth meters north and toEast meters
 * east of startLL
 */
private static LatLng move(LatLng startLL, double toNorth, double toEast) {
    double lonDiff = meterToLongitude(toEast, startLL.latitude);
    double latDiff = meterToLatitude(toNorth);
    return new LatLng(startLL.latitude + latDiff, startLL.longitude
            + lonDiff);
}

private static double meterToLongitude(double meterToEast, double latitude) {
    double latArc = Math.toRadians(latitude);
    double radius = Math.cos(latArc) * EARTHRADIUS;
    double rad = meterToEast / radius;
    return Math.toDegrees(rad);
}

private static double meterToLatitude(double meterToNorth) {
    double rad = meterToNorth / EARTHRADIUS;
    return Math.toDegrees(rad);
}

```

**Edit, as this seems to be still well liked:**

Please see <https://stackoverflow.com/a/23092644/2808624> below: Nowadays one would use SphericalUtil for moving LatLng coordinates, instead of coding it on your own.
Coming late but maybe someone has the same issue I had: I received bounds from a Place, not from a LatLngBounds.Builder:

I used Location.distanceBetween(...) to find out if the bounds were too small, and then use a minimum zoom level with the center of the bounds:

```
if (areBoundsTooSmall(bounds, 300)) {
    mMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(bounds.getCenter(), 17));
} else {
    mMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngBounds(bounds, 20));
}

```

The check method is:

```
private boolean areBoundsTooSmall(LatLngBounds bounds, int minDistanceInMeter) {
    float[] result = new float[1];
    Location.distanceBetween(bounds.southwest.latitude, bounds.southwest.longitude, bounds.northeast.latitude, bounds.northeast.longitude, result);
    return result[0] < minDistanceInMeter;
}

```

I used min zoom level 17 and padding 20 for bounds that are too small, too small is definded here by min distance in meter 300. You can adjust the numbers as you need.