Android Google Maps application for Android map API key

In order to successfully apply for the android map API key, you must prepare a Google account and System Certificate. Generally, Google accounts are required to publish keys on Google. Google accounts are common and Gmail accounts are acceptable. A program must be issued with a certificate. The certificate is actually MD5. we are not releasing it here, but for development and testing, we can use the debug certificate, next we will briefly introduce how to apply for the key of the debug version.

1, access the https://code.google.com/apis/console (if there is no Google account, you can follow the prompts to create an account ~)

2. Select sevice and click

3. Find Google Maps Android API V2 and click open:

4. Select API service and click the interface shown in the following figure:

5. If the page remains unchanged, go back to your myeclipse, find the required default debug keystore, open myeclipse, and find Windows-> preference, as shown in:

6. Click preference, click Android, and then click build. The default debug keystore is displayed.

7. Enter the CMD mode, enter keytool-list-v-keystore, and add the default debug keystore you found in myeclipse. In this example, enter the default debug keystore, it must be the default debug keystore that you find in myeclipse according to the above steps.

8. Enter the command in Step 7 and you will be prompted. The default key password is Android.

9. Enter the key and press enter to get a long string of things.

10. The red coil is a string of commands we need.

11. Copy the commands obtained in the previous step to the box, as shown in the red coil. The blue line is the package name corresponding to your new Android Google Maps project !!! Remember !!!

12. After the content in the previous step is lost, click the create button to generate your own API key, this API key is the API key value you need to use when creating your own project !!!