Question

I am trying to load Google mmaps on my activity. After fighting off through a series of errors, my log cat finally shows me this error:

03-11 23:42:08.390: E/MapActivity(712): Couldn't get connection factory client

The map activity doesn’t load any content. I tried searching for a solution, and:

• My activity extends MapActivity
• I have given the Internet persmission <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
• I also told the app that I will use the map library <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps"/>
• My target machine and virtual machine both have API level 10 and both target Google API
• My api key is correct and working.
• I connect to the internet directly using broadband connection.

My guess is that I am unable to the internet. I tried to open the browser in the emulator and failed to open any URL. So I think I don’t have access to internet on my emulator. After searching for a while about connecting to the internet on emulator and with reference to this question I tried running the command: C:\program files\android\android-sdk-windows\tools\emulator -avd -dns-server 8.8.8.8

But I ended up with the error:

PANIC: Could not open: C:\Documents and Settings\dwadasi\.android/avd/-dns-serv
r.ini

I couldn’t understand where the problem is. I tried installing the APK file on my Android phone[2.3.6] and it worked. But I really need it to work on my emulator as there is lot of development I still need to do.

Answer 1

try this code…. i use this and now working.

class MapOverlay extends com.google.android.maps.Overlay
{
    @Override
    public boolean draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapView, 
    boolean shadow, long when) 
    {
        super.draw(canvas, mapView, shadow);                   

        //---translate the GeoPoint to screen pixels---
        Point screenPts = new Point();
        mapView.getProjection().toPixels(p, screenPts);

        //---add the marker---
        Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(
            getResources(), R.drawable.pushpin2);            
        canvas.drawBitmap(bmp, screenPts.x, screenPts.y-50, null);         
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event, MapView mapView) 
    {   
        add="";
        //---when user lifts his finger---
        if (event.getAction() == 1) {                
            GeoPoint p = mapView.getProjection().fromPixels(
                (int) event.getX(),
                (int) event.getY());


            Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(
                    getBaseContext(), Locale.getDefault());
                try {
                    List<Address> addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(
                        p.getLatitudeE6()  / 1E6, 
                        p.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6, 1);

                    lattitude=p.getLatitudeE6()  / 1E6;
                    longitude=p.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6;

                    if (addresses.size() > 0) 
                    {
                        for (int i=0; i<addresses.get(0).getMaxAddressLineIndex(); 
                             i++)
                           add += addresses.get(0).getAddressLine(i) + "\n";
                    }

                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), add, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


                }
                catch (IOException e) {                
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }   
                return true;

        }                
        else {
        return false;
        }
    }        
}