Generate a new secret key. To generate the key, follow the same process as the one for generating a new private key. You use the Security library in each case. Import encrypted keys more securely. Android 9 (API level 28) and higher allow you to import encrypted keys securely into the Keystore using an ASN.1‑encoded key format. Until you do this, you will just see a blank grid instead of a map in your applications. You must obtain a Google Maps Android API v2 key - keys from the older Google Maps Android API key v1 will not work. Obtaining a Maps API v2 key involves the following steps: Retrieve the SHA-1 fingerprint of the keystore that is used to sign the application. Option 2: Creating a Google Maps API Key. For: Technical Users Getting Started. Navigate to the Google Maps Platform and click on the Get Started button in the top right corner of the site. Enable Google Maps Platform. Select the Maps, Routes and Places check boxes and press continue.
Android provides facility to integrate Google map in our application. Google map displays your current location, navigate location direction, search location etc. We can also customize Google map according to our requirement.
What key combination generates a backspace character in unix. There are four different types of Google maps, as well as an optional to no map at all. Each of them gives different view on map. These maps are as follow:
Google map API provides several methods that help to customize Google map. These methods are as following:
| Methods | Description |
|---|---|
| addCircle(CircleOptions options) | This method add circle to map. |
| addPolygon(PolygonOptions options) | This method add polygon to map. |
| addTileOverlay(TileOverlayOptions options) | This method add tile overlay to the map. |
| animateCamera(CameraUpdate update) | This method moves the map according to the update with an animation. |
| clear() | This method removes everything from the map. |
| getMyLocation() | This method returns the currently displayed user location. |
| moveCamera(CameraUpdate update) | This method reposition the camera according to the instructions defined in the update. |
| setTrafficEnabled(boolean enabled) | This method set the traffic layer on or off. |
| snapshot(GoogleMap.SnapshotReadyCallback callback) | This method takes a snapshot of the map. |
| stopAnimation() | This method stops the camera animation if there is any progress. |
Let's create an example of Google map integrating within our app. For doing this we select Google Maps Activity.
Copy the URL from google_map_api.xml file to generate Google map key.
Paste the copied URL at the browser. It will open the following page.
Click on Create API key to generate API key.
After clicking on Create API key, it will generate our API key displaying the following screen.
Copy this generated API key in our google_map_api.xml file
To get the GoogleMap object in our MapsActivity.java class we need to implement the OnMapReadyCallback interface and override the onMapReady() callback method.
Add the following user-permission in AndroidManifest.xml file.
Add the following dependencies in build.gradel file. Generate api key campaign monitor.
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