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Need help with directions? Or want to know where you are? Google Maps is one of the great service that Google provides to the masses free of cost. Using Maps in your android application is easy as long as you know what you are doing. In this tutorial I will demonstrate a simple application which will display your current position in a map and update it every time you move.
Step 1: Get a Google Maps API key
Before doing anything you need to get a MD5 key which will allow you to use the API in your application. To get a key you first need to create a simple certificate fingerprint. For this tutorial I have created a SDK Debug Certificate which has to be used for development. I am using eclipse for developing this application so to create the certificate I first needed to locate my debug.keystore file. I found the location in Eclipse by using Window->Preferences->Android->Build. Once I got the location I ran a simple command on the command prompt:
