Chapter 8 - MyMap Example

Although I’ve added a righteous tag to the element of AndroidManifest.xml,

that doesn’t seem to be quite enough to make the library available to my application. In the import statements in MyMap.java:

import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;
import com.google.android.maps.MapController;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;
import com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay;

the “com.google” parts of the paths are underlined red, with the error message saying that “the import google.com cannot be resolved.” Of course, that cascades into a LOT of compiler errors.

I’d know exactly what to do about it in a C# application, but I’m new to both Java and Android. Obviously, I’ve neglected something, but I’m not sure what. What do I need to do in order to make the library available to the application?

Thanks for a clue!

Obviously, my original message contained some text that didn’t make it through the parsing. What I originally said, and tried to illustrate with a bit of text pasted from it, was that I’d included the required “uses-library” tag in the “AndroidManifest.xml” file.

When you create a project that uses the Google Maps API, you have to specify a Google-specific Build Target, for example “Google APIs (Platform: 2.3.1)”.

You can change it later by right clicking on the project and selecting Properties > Android, select the new Build Target, and click OK. Everything should rebuild and get rid of the errors but if it doesn’t, run the Project > Clean command.

Thank you so much! I’d skipped over that Build Target setting without noticing that it was different than all the previous projects.

Does there ever come a time when one may need both Android and Google libraries?

Yes but the Google APIs target has both the Android and Google (com.google.*) libraries. It’s a superset of the Android APIs target.