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Mick
Mick

Reputation: 7937

What is my API key in debug mode

I understand that in order to use google maps I need to have the following in my manifest:

<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
    android:value="YOUR_API_KEY"/>

and I need to replace YOUR_API_KEY with my real API Key. I am also aware that my real API key will be one thing for my released app and something else for my development version in debug mode.

Just for now I'd be happy enough to get it working in debug mode, but unfortunately I can not understand the google documentation well enough to work out what my debug mode API key actually is! Can anyone enlighten me?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1152

Answers (1)

Emil Adz
Emil Adz

Reputation: 41099

Here is a short and explanatory guide for generating your own Google Maps API Key for Android that I wrote. Take a look at this and see if this is more clear for:

Google Maps API V2 key

If you have any questions you are welcome to ask.

In short you have to get your SHA1 fingerprint using the keytool included with your JDK installation.

Register this SHA1 fingerprint with your application package in Google API Console and this will produce a Google API Key for your application.

Upvotes: 2

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