Android Cookers: Google Map

Showing Google map on your android application,you can make many useful application like gps tracker,navigation systems etc.But how to show Google map in your application?So follow this tutorial to get the Google map in some easy steps.

First of all,make a project in your favorite IDE(this tutorial is based on Eclipse IDE).Here the important think is set your application build target as Google APIs.Otherwise you will not be able to use MapView widget.

Now open the main.xml in layout folder.There you don't get some MapView widget that can be dragged & dropped like the other widgets(Button,EditText etc.). You have to write xml code for the MapView. Now lets check the code...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    <com.google.android.maps.MapView
        android:id="@+id/mapview"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:apiKey="Your Android Maps API key"
    />
</LinearLayout>

Show Google Map on your android app.