You might have forgotten to update your Android Maps V2 API key

April 5, 2013, 3:31 am

If you notice your logcat rapidly filling up with Failed to load map. Could not contact Google servers, you might have forgotten to update your Android Maps V2 key in AndroidManifest.xml.

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

The maps object gets quite angry, but remains sadly inarticulate when this happens. Just sayin.

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