Comments on: Android Activity Not Launching MapActivity

By: Ripalhiral

Ripalhiral — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:29:42 +0000

What do you mean by put like this???
I had the same problem ,,
hope you help me

By: kunal

kunal — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:48:02 +0000

yeah it worked put like this in manifest

By: Bhanu Kaushik

Bhanu Kaushik — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:51:54 +0000

I ahd the same problem, Add the following to you manifest file. I DONT KNOW how exactly it worked but it worked. SetupLocation is my maps activity class

By: BumsNudlFuX

BumsNudlFuX — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:00:39 +0000

unfortunately the blogentry is offline

By: Martin A.

Martin A. — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:28:04 +0000

@Din
Of course, sorry, seems like the XML was cropped out of my input by the comments system. Here is a link to my solution on my blog:
http://blog.quentures.com/2010/10/google-maps-on-android/

Hope it helps.

By: Din

Din — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:02:08 +0000

@Martin A.

Hi, I’m having the same problem as the original post. I don’t understand your solution to this. What do you mean by “alter the manifest that it looks like that:”? Do you mean by creating the MapActivity as your main activity it works? I tried that and going from a MapActivity to a normal Activity and it also force closes.

I hope you can help me on this. Thanks.

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By: Martin A.

Martin A. — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:55:10 +0000

After 2 freakin hours of work I finally figured out how to solve this.
It seems like there is a security issue if you are trying to switch from a normal Activity to a MapActivity causing the application to crash.

However: If you put into the field of your MapActivity instance in your Manifest file, it works.

Example: I have a class named QMap extends MapActivity. If I try to start QMap from a normal Activity instance, the App crashes.
If I alter the Manifest that it looks like that:
…

…
i am able to call the QMap instance from any other activity.

Hope it helps!