The app throws a 'force close' when I click on the 'Show map' button.
Logcat has the output:
02-23 14:23:46.730: E/AndroidRuntime(735): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=geo:37.827500,-122.481670 }

There seems to be a problem with parsing 'geo:37.827500,-122.481670'
Is there something missing in manifest.xml? Permissions for map view?
All the other parts of the example are fine.

I think the solution is that the app has to be run on an AVD that supports the Google APIs in order to display map information. This is stated in a similar example in the author's new book on Android 4.0 but I didn't see it in the relevant pages of chapter 2 in this book, though it is discussed more fully in chapter 9 on location-based services.

I am on the same Try Out as you.

When I click Show Map, it runs the debugger. I know I have Google API installed on my AVD, I'm using 2.3.3. Any ideas anyone how to get it working?

Okay have worked it out. Pg 302-303 shows an helpful example with pictures. The author should have shown these in Chp2! : /

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