Xamarin Android Tutorial 40 Google Maps
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as a step-by-step walkthrough when answering questions about showing Google Maps in Xamarin Android or Xamarin.Forms apps, and many askers say they followed it before hitting an error.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What it is
A 16-minute Xamarin Android tutorial by Joe Rock, part of his numbered series, showing how to configure an Xamarin.Android app to use Google Maps. It covers setting up the Google Play Services maps component, API key and map fragment in a Visual Studio project.
What people said
Recommends Jraco11 · 2015-02 · Stack Overflow · on “How to display Google Map in an Android app using Xamarin”
For those who are looking for a thorough example, check out this video [this video] that demonstrates how to integrate Google Maps with Xamarin Android, hope this helps!
Recommends DST · 2016-02 · Stack Overflow · on “Using Google Maps with Xamarin Android”
I dont know what you did wrong, but see this link, it helped me a lot to implement google maps. ;) [ [this video]
Recommends gregoryp · 2017-03 · Stack Overflow · on “how to integrate Google MAP API in xamarin.forms project?”
Check this video. It's for Xamarin.Android but it's the same logic for Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin Android Tutorial - Google Maps [this video]
Cites Ali · 2016-06 · Stack Overflow · on “VS Xamarin android error- resource directory ..\resourcecache\637B247E1...B9\re does not exist”
I've been struggling with this error for the past week when I try to use Google Map in my application in visual studio 2015. Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error resource directory 'C:\Users\User\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\App2\App2\obj\Debug\resourcecache\637B247E17F6C444444444D51C9757B9\res' does not exist App2 C:\Users\User\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\App2\App2\AAPT . I have followed this tutorial [this video] and have done everything step by step. This error even happened when I created new project and add "Google play services-Maps" and "Google play services-Location" components and built it. I have done this steps too: Install "Google play
Cites Appeltants Ronald · 2017-04 · Stack Overflow · on “FindFragmentById in Android.Support.V4.App.Fragment”
I used 2 tutorils from Joe Rock for implementing SlidingTabLayout [LINK] and using google maps [this video] in Xamarin. Both works fine as i follow the tutorials but whhen i wanna combine these i get errors. I can't get the FindFragmentById working. MainActivity public class MainActivity : FragmentActivity { private ViewPager mViewPager; private SlidingTabScrollView mScrollView; protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle) { base.OnCreate(bundle); // Set our view from the "main" layout resource SetContentView(Resource.Layout.Main); mScrollView = FindViewById<SlidingTabScrollView>(Resource.Id.sliding_tabs); mViewPager = FindViewById<ViewPager>(Resource.Id.viewPager); mViewPager.Adapter = new Sa
Cites Bah Akif · 2017-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Unhandled Exception: Android.Views.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class fragment occurred”
I am trying to integrate google maps to Xamarin Android. However, received the error, as written in the title. This error appeared on my SetContentView (Resource.Layout.Main); as shown below where: Error occurred in MainActivity.cs [LINK] My google play services for maps is up-to-date . I have tried cleaning and rebuilding the project, also restarting VS did not work for me. Non of the forums answered my questions. These are what is written in my project for: MainActivity.cs using System; using Android.App; using Android.Content; using Android.Runtime; using Android.Views; using Android.Widget; using Android.OS; using Android.Gms.Maps; namespace Google_maps.Droid { [Activity (Label = "@strin
Cites Sumeet Kumar · 2017-10 · Stack Overflow · on “xamarin Android Deployment on Android Mobile Device Issue”
Sir, Previously when ever I have deployed my android application using xamarin on visual studio 2017 the application would be deployed perfectly. But after watching a video for google Map tutorial as : [this video] , I am unable to deploy application on android device and on emulator as well. Now I am getting the following error on deployment : Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED] . This is my error log File : [LINK] Manifest Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android=" [LINK] " package="VaishnoDeviTourismApp.VaishnoDeviTourismApp" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" android:installLocation="auto"> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="16" /> <uses-
Cites hoacin · 2017-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Google maps not created, callback function never runs”
I am trying to add google maps support to my android app. As I create whole application layout in code, I would like to create also the map object in code. This is class that should handle OnMapReady callback function. public class MapReader : Java.Lang.Object, IOnMapReadyCallback { private LayoutBuilder layoutBuilder; public MapReader(LayoutBuilder lb) { layoutBuilder = lb; } public void OnMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) { layoutBuilder.OnMapLoaded(googleMap); } } This is critical part of code creating the layout. MapView mapView=new MapView(context); mapView.LayoutParameters = layoutParams; linearLayout.AddView(mapView); mapReader = new MapReader(this); mapView.GetMapAsync(mapReader); The pr