I've been working with a few people lately on getting maps to work on an emulator with the new Android v3 code, and despite my best efforts, wasn't able to. I couldn't quite figure out what the issue was. Now, it's possible that I'm the last person to learn this, but in order to get maps working on the emulator, you'll need to have the Google Play Store services (app) installed. I got a LogCat error message in the emulator, when it wasn't working, saying that those services couldn't be found. I took the same app, ran it on my device (which as the services), and blamo, the maps appeared! The conclusion I drew seems obvious. So, while I have no idea what the relationship is between maps and that service, it appears maps won't work on the emulator without them. If anybody has different experiences, please let me know. Mark

So, I get that the Google Play Services are required for compiling the app and using maps...but I guess that means the only way to get the Google Play Services on the emulator is to install the Google Play app?

Hello everyone! Very interesting topic to discuss! I tried to adjust Android v3 Maps and just an emulator. I got an error message in the LogCat emulator. Installed according to the instructions https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=F87D29BA17032DE4EF7DBDE https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/OSMBT/GPSRefBT.pdf What mistake did not understand.

Many people face this problem - maybe someone will post detailed instructions for installing Android v3 Maps and emulator?

The basic instructions for enabling Android maps in v3 are still exactly what needs to be done. The other part is installing the Google Play Store app in the emulator. I'm working on something for that. If you can find an apk somewhere for it, that would solve the problem.

yes agree, maybe I misunderstood ...

@Mark- Interesting topic and find. I agree on your finding that you might need the playstore apk installed in your emulator to make the maps run on it. Well i have not tried to check the new map on emulator but i did it on my tab and it works flawlessly. In case you want apk of google playstore app you can check the following link- http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/13/download-latest-google-play-store-4-3-11-teardown/ Do inform how it goes.

Update : Installing the Google Play Store app on the my Android 3.1 emulator apparently does not provide the required Google Play Services. I'm now working on testing the app on a Google SDK-based emulator, which should have the play services already included, to see what affect that has. Mark

Update : Tried a Google SDK-based emulator, but got this: "09-27 18:41:55.372: W/GooglePlayServicesUtil(1920): Google Play services out of date. Requires 3225100 but found 3136130." Going to set up the absolute most current and see what happens. Mark

Update : Tried the absolute latest Google API (API 18), and got partial success! The map screen loaded with the map controllers, but there are no map tiles, and my pin isn't visible. LogCat shows this: 09-27 19:27:35.252: E/Google Maps Android API(1687): Google Maps Android API v2 only supports devices with OpenGL ES 2.0 and above 09-27 19:27:36.391: W/ZZ(1687): BT_screen_map:onCreateView using data from app's configuration file 09-27 19:27:36.401: W/ZZ(1687): BT_screen_map:parseScreenData 09-27 19:27:36.532: W/ZZ(1687): BT_screen_map:showMapPins 09-27 19:27:36.532: W/ZZ(1687): BT_screen_map:showMapType "standard" 09-27 19:27:36.605: E/GooglePlayServicesUtil(1687): The Google Play services resources were not found. Check your project configuration to ensure that the resources are included. So, still missing something. Will continue to investigate. Mark