title: Using Android MapView without the MapActivity?
body: <p>I'm in the process of encapsulating Android features and services, and I was trying to find the code of the MapActivity of Android to see how it is managing the MapView it contains, in order to implement this out side of this darn MapActivity which collides with my Android wrapper architecture...</p>
  
  <p>Is it even possible to use the MapView without the MapActivity?
  Does anyone know about legal limitations of using the MapView, as I see fit in my application?
  (for example to display four friend on a single screen...?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Adam.</p>