hey there I crated an app and a few screens and I am using the eclipse emulater. My problem: The map is not working. I set up a map screen and added places by adresses like shown in the video. But when I run it in the emulator, it displays my home screen and i chan navigaet to maps, but it shows only a grey grid, no map and no places. The same with the excel file I added. When I run it in the emulator it says: Doesnt know how to handle file. How can I solve this problem. I downloaded bluestacks and tried to display it there, but its the same as in the emulator. thanks Nate

Hey @ChruutundRuebli, @GoNorthWest has a great video tutorial on how to get the map tiles to show up on the Eclipse Emulator. The link is below. The excel file will not open because you need a helper installed on your emulator to open the excel file. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC9IuEMwBE LA

For maps to work you need an API key. Unfortunately, the map plugin is configured to work with Google API 1.0, which is no longer supported by Google. Buzztouch is aware of the issue and working on it though.

@chris1 is exactly right. Unless you already have an existing Google Maps Android API v1 key, there's no way to get maps working at the moment. We're working feverishly on getting the new v2 keys integrated. Mark

Mark - can we use a 1.0 key for a different app of ours? Or is it necessarily linked to the app via the keystore?

The maps key is linked to the release keystore you got it with. You can use it as many times as you want, for as many apps, as long as you sign the app with the same keystore. Mark

Thank you very much for your help. I'll continue to stumble around :)