Android AppWidget maps activity problem

Question

Right.

So I have an app widget.

It has 4 buttons, one one of the buttons I want it to show me the current location of the user on the map.

So - I make a new activity as below:

package com.android.driverwidget;

import java.util.List;

import android.os.Bundle;

import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;
import com.google.android.maps.MapController;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;
import com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay;
import com.google.android.maps.Overlay;



public class MyLocation extends MapActivity{



     public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    MapView myMapView = (MapView)findViewById(R.id.mapview);
    MapController mapController = myMapView.getController();

    List<Overlay> overlays = myMapView.getOverlays();
    MyLocationOverlay myLocationOverlay = new MyLocationOverlay(this,             myMapView);
    overlays.add(myLocationOverlay);
    myLocationOverlay.enableMyLocation();
  }


    protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {

      return false;
    }




}

And then I added the appropriate uses library line to the manifest

<activity android:name=".MyLocation"
    android:label="myLocation">
     </activity>

   <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

Ok yet - when I run the app the following errors occur, looks like it cannot find the MapActivity class, im running it on the GoogleApps 1.5 instead of normal android 1.5 as well.

http://pastebin.com/m3ee8dba2

Somebody plz help me - i am now dying.

Answer 1

If you look a few lines before you start getting verify errors you'll see this line:

07-20 14:40:03.460: WARN/dalvikvm(753): Unable to resolve superclass of Lcom/android/driverwidget/MyLocation; (61)

This is what's causing the problem. The most likely cause is that there's an error in your manifest file where it's including the Maps library. If you post your whole manifest I'll try to help further.

Answer 2

You're problem might be related to this bug:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/904fae350cda3ebc

Answer 3

Any help to this is greatly appreciated!!

Answer 4

When you creating this project you have to choose Google APIs project not only AVD.

Answer 5

Fix your manifest by adding/moving

<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

into application.

Answer 6

Place this line in the tag and outside the tag. This line is usually put before the tag.