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Android Google Maps API v2: Authorization failure at different laptops

I've followed the steps here and here to create a MapView in our teams project which we sync with svn. After following the steps, MapView was running smooth, but only on my laptop. My project members are always getting

02-06 13:27:37.327: E/Google Maps Android API(19490): Authorization failure.

when opening the MapView. So I deleted the old one and generated a new SHA1 fingerprint for a new Google API Key on another laptop with my Google Account with:

keytool -list -alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore -storepass android -keypass android -v

So now it's working on the other laptop where I generated the SHA1 fingerprint but when I try to run the project on my laptop I'm now getting the

02-06 13:29:51.280: E/Google Maps Android API(20262): Authorization failure.

Error.

We are not using proguard-project.txt, we tried different devices where google-play-services is installed and included /extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib as a library. We also tried to generate multiple API Keys but only one was working.

What are we doing wrong? Do we have to use different Google Accounts to create individual keys?

Solution

  • You have two options here.

    1. Add a separate line to the api key for each device you have.

    2. Extract the api key to a file (eg. map_key.xml) and reference this file from the AndroidManifest.xml.

      <meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
    android:value="@string/google_maps_api_key_v2" />

      Add this file to your .gitignore - so now each project member can override with its own key.