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MapView without MapActivity

I am writing this android application where in I have many activities that extend the Activity class. I also need an activity that uses MapView to show the Map along with a ListView in the screen (similar to rental house list where the houses are shown using pins on the map) Since I have a base class which extends the Activity class, all the other activities extend that base class. Only that particular screen which has the map needs to extend the MapActivity class. When I try doing that I am thrown a IllegalAccessError Exception.

Project setup - Android 2.1-update1 and GoogleAPI 2.1-update 1 both throw the same exception. The application is for a tablet.

I have made sure that I have the entry in the Manifest.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Solution

  • Finally here comes the Google Maps API v2.

    https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/maps/MapFragment

    They have heard us! :)