Sunday, June 12, 2011

How to display the maps in the Android Maps

1. How to display the maps in the Android Maps?

To display the Google Maps we use the follwoing Code the view

   <com.google.android.maps.MapView android:id="@+id/myGMap"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:enabled="true"
         android:clickable="true"
         android:apiKey="ANDROID KEY"/>

in this the main part is "android:apiKey" this will be unique of each user

How to Generate this?
1. Identify the .android folder (Normally this will be available in the C:\Users\puneethkhanna.sakshi)
2. C:\Users\puneethkhanna.sakshi>keytool -list -alias androiddebugkey -keystore .android\debug.keystore -storepass android -keypass android

androiddebugkey, Nov 23, 2010, PrivateKeyEntry,

Certificate fingerprint (MD5): 72:B2:12:54:1D:B4:49:3F:C7:13:C4:7F:F1:29:3B:27
3. http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.html
4. place the generated key in the  "android:apiKey". Now the map appears in the app.

1 comment:

  1. It is really nice way which you shared, thanks for the whole efforts which you made for us.

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