Android Application Development Tutorial - 131 - Displaying the MapView

[danielward]

This is what worked for me. Also make sure everything in your manifest and layout documents are spelled correctly and all that, because I had a few problems there, as well.

[danielward]

Ok after forever of trying to figure out what I was actually supposed to type in to my files for this to work (because Google's code is not completely correct), I finally got it. After doing what Travis says in the video (with the key and all that):

1. Import the google play services into your project. File->Import->locate directory (on windows it is

[Tracid]

ok for all who didnt get the map succesfully, and got grey titles this is what you need to check:
first of all when you got your hash key be sure it is [MD5] HASH, NOT [SHA1]. its a big difference cus SHA1 is 20 digit hash and it wont work. MD5 van be obtain by simply typing keytool -v -list -keystore ... and you got big list of some data. find it and copy md5 and paste in that textbox for getting your api. and here you go.

[EmerCarr]

I've followed the Google steps for v2 using SHA1 but kept getting a runtime error. Struggling to understand what the problem is so was trying this but now getting message that the emulator I set up in an earlier tutorial isn't' compatible. #confused.com

[danielward]

Check what comes up and click Finish.

2. Right click your application project, click Properties, go to Android in the left side, click add, click on the google-play-services_lib, click Apply, click OK

3. Your Activity must implement FragmentActivity (import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;), not Activity, so do that

4. The xml fragment class should be class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment", not simply MapFragment, like Google says.

[david]

@jasonlin91 Who forgot the permissions settings? Not Travis as he did it in a previous tutorial.

[markgameforeverythin]

i have done this and for some reason it wont work on the emulator or my phone, when i put it on my phone i have no icon and nothing happens when i run it via the pc

[CeltiC]

This is because Google Maps v1 is now depreciated as of December 2012, meaning that this way to generate a map is now useless. There is a completely new way to access the map using Google Maps v2. Google it to learn how to use it.

[johnmagdy]

error:No resource identifier found for attribute 'apikey' in package'android'
what's correct?
please guys help me !!

[tapanpatel]

I am getting below error when running app.nothing comes out except grayed grid. Although, it is not crashing my app but after digging bit i got below error logged.

couldn't get connection factory client


any idea how to resolve this?

Really appreciate your inputs on this.

[danielward]

Also I meant that your Activity must extend FragmentActivity, not implement

[ReubenJohnMV]

setBuiltInZoomControls(true) method does not exist any more in fact it apparently does not need to be used since it is enable by default! But I did in

[datapaal]

Remember to add in manifest
manifest
uses-permission
application
uses-library /

[almyz]

I'm getting this when I try to launch the app.

I added the internet permission and uses library tag to the manifest. Any thoughts?


[2012-10-24 14:57:47 - STAMP] Please check logcat output for more details.
[2012-10-24 14:57:47 - STAMP] Launch canceled!

[yuhzimmi]

@shashkes the mistake i made was that where ur supposed to have map = I put main instead of mvMain. Simple typo. Just go back back some tutorials and see if you have everything right

[jerricadecker]

I am not able to use extends MapActivity.

[tiemysou]

hey guys. im having a problem because i will only get an api key on the google website if i type in my SHA1 key and will get an error with the MD5 key. so clearly google has made some changes. the api key i typed in won't work following travis's tutorials. please help someone!!

[tikyorules]

does any one have problems with the xml? i followed all the instructions and upon pasting the google maps xml layout i get this error code to the xml

"Failed to find style 'mapViewStyle' in current theme"

can anyone help? travis i hope you could read this...

[shashkes]

@yuhzimmi what was the mistake i'm getting the same thing and i did put in the permissions

[BossPG]

See if you forget to type at the end of sha1 key: "com.example" (this is package name of your app)