Android API Usage

Question

This might sound like stupid question...

If an Android app is using Maps API to use user location, do all the users use the same quota or do each logged-in user use their own quota?

Is there a way to code it so the app automatically gets the user to setup his/her own api key and use the app with his/her own free quota? For example, some sort of authentication with a gmail account that uses the gmail account's free quota. Every user will then have their own Maps API usage for free, is that possible?

Answer 1

No, your app doesn't have any quota for users. So you don't need to setup API key for each user.

Here is details (usage limits):

The following APIs do not have usage limits:

Google Earth API
Google Maps APIs for Android
Google Maps APIs for iOS
Google Maps Embed API