Hi,

I have tried the "WhereAmI" application (the one using the map controller) several times and the map displayed is white (or maybe a light gray) and empty. The lat, long, and address are displayed correctly at the top of the screen. I have the latest code source. Any ideas why?

Thank you,
Mihai

OK, so the problem was with the apiKey for the MapView. I had to sign up for an Android Maps API Key.

Thanks sunrain, your post lead me down the right path to a solution. To expand on sunrain's post, here's how you can get a debugging API key:

http://code.google.com/android/add-o...is/mapkey.html describes how to obtain a Maps API key. I used the SDK Debug certificate to generate a debug key. First find the debug.keystore file (probably in c:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.android of something similar depending on your OS). Run the keytool command (found in your java directory e.g. c:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin).

keytool -list -alias androiddebugkey -keystore debug.keystore -storepass android -keypass android

This will print out a MD5 fingerprint that you input into http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.html. Click the "Generate API key" button. That key is what you enter for your MapView's android:apiKey in your XML layout files.

-Sonja