Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Your making an Android app and want to take advantage of Google Maps, you’ve been bashing your head against the desk attempting to work out what is going wrong.

So welcome to this little checklist of things I’ve forgotten to do when doing this task:

1. Right click on your project in eclipse and go to properties. Then under Android select Google APIs with the correct platform number, click apply then Ok
2. Open up your Android Manifest file, under the application tab scroll to the bottom and under the Application Nodes click on Add, then double click on “Uses Library”, now for the name enter the following – com.google.android.maps
3. Your activity which is going to be displaying the map isn’t a plain old activity, it needs to be a MapActivity like: public class MapExample extends MapActivity
4. Finally your map view in the layout file should look something like <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_API_KEY”/> where your api key can be found by doing as mentioned on the Google Maps site -http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.html

This should get you up and running with lots of mappy goodness.

Tags: Android, Google, Maps
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I just read this article over at Slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/21/239247/Google-To-Take-On-ITunes

Now there are a host of people commenting on audio players and different things, but it’s not Google’s thing, they advertise, most new technologies have some sort of advertising / searching (Which leads to advertising) element to it. (more…)

Tags: Google, Spotify
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Yep, that’s right, I said it, iPhone is going to be a winner.

But this isn’t over any hate towards Google, Android, Cyanogen etc. but just more of the fact that Android is at a point of heading down 2 roads. One road leads to Android being fragmented, losing alot of it’s value. The other road leading to a community using different devices but one central set of app’s. I better explain what I’m talking about.

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Tags: Android, Cyanogen, Google, iPhone, Motorola
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I just read an article over at linux insider http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67982.html and it basically discusses the confusion between Android and Chrome OS – My question is, what confusion?

Android in my eyes has always been a mobile phone platform, now I admit mobile phones, smart phones, smart books, its all blurring a bit so my definition of what should be running Android – a device which can be used for making phone calls, has a small screen making full aplications difficult to use, processor and memory (RAM) is limited. Something along those sort of lines. Or devices that don’t necessarily require a full blown OS, something more light weight.

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Tags: Android, Chrome OS, Google, Linux
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