Android Optimisation Step: Creating a Google Maps Key

How to display your club's address on your app’s homepage to match the example shown here

• Log in to Console Google Cloud.
• Select your application on the top left of your homepage. 

• In the search bar, search and click on API Places (New). 

• Click on Activate next on Manage. 

• Click on Keys and Identifiers next on Add identifiers on the top screen.

• Select API Key 

• Click on Edit the API Key.

• Name your key so it is easily identifiable (e.g. Maps Key -YourClubName) (1), select as the restriction Android Application (2), then click on +ADD to add your application (3).

• Open Console Google Play in a new tab.
• On the homepage, copy the address of your application.

• Paste the address you just copied into Package Name in the Google Maps configuration tab.

• Now click on the application whose address you just copied, then go to Test and publish > Setup > App signing.
• Locate the SHA-1 certificate fingerprint line and click the copy icon at the end of the line to copy its value.

• Paste the copied fingerprint into the Google Maps configuration tab, then click Done to finalize the key creation.

• Now that your key has been created, on the Keys and IDs page, click Show key at the end of the line.

• Copy the API key and send it to us by email.
• Also check that Maps SDK for Android is activated on your account. (To find it, use the same method you used to locate the Places API).

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Congratulations! You now know how to create a Google Maps key.

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