Setup Google developer console for an Android Map app

Setup Google developer console for an Android Map app

• Go to developer console: https://console.developers.google.com

• Login with your Gmail account.

• Activate the Google Maps Android API v2 (you can enable any service for your account, for example, map service, youtube service.... etc).

• Register a public access key with the SSA-1 key, which is copied when we export our project into bin folder with debug-keystone (you can export in a different location with your existing keystone).

• Register an SSA key

• Define the below code chunk in manifest file.

<permission

android:name="com.example.mapdemo.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"

android:protectionLevel="signature" />

<uses-feature

android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"

android:required="true" />

<uses-permission android:name="com.example.mapdemo.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

• Define the below code inside the <application> tag which is located in manifest.

<meta-data

android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"

android:value="AIzaSyAoJUCRMi6crD9Z1JMAWruWHig95z-uS50" />

• Put your map fragment inside the activity_main.xml

<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

 android:id="@+id/map"

 android:layout_width="match_parent"

 android:layout_height="match_parent"

 class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"/>

• In Java implementation, for  a particular location with longitude and latitude 

GoogleMap map = ((SupportMapFragment) getActivity()

     .getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map))

.getMap();

LatLng nawala = new LatLng(6.9000, 79.88);// latitude, longitude

MarkerOptions mo = new MarkerOptions();

mo.position(nawala);

mo.title("Nawala");

map.addMarker(mo);