title: Missing Google API Key in Manifest (Android)
body: <p>I am having trouble getting past the following error, which suggests that I am missing a tag in my manifest: </p>
  
  <pre><code>05-04 17:05:16.517: E/AndroidRuntime(26717): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: API key not found.  Check that &lt;meta-data android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="your API key"/&gt; is in the &lt;application&gt; element of AndroidManifest.xml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Having read <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21120970/google-maps-android-api-v2-problems-with-android-4-3">Google Maps Android API V2 problems with android 4.3</a>, and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16371811/android-google-map-api-v2-crashes-on-runtime">Android google Map Api V2 Crashes on runtime</a>, I still have not had any luck in fixing my issue.</p>
  
  <p>My manifest can be found below: </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;permission
      android:name="com.mapgenius.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"
      android:protectionLevel="signature" &gt;
  &lt;/permission&gt;
  
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.mapgenius.googlemaps.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_GPS" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt;
  
  &lt;uses-sdk
      android:minSdkVersion="8"
      android:targetSdkVersion="17" /&gt;
  
  &lt;uses-feature
      android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
      android:required="true" /&gt;
  
  &lt;application
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@style/Theme.Sherlock" &gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name="com.mapgenius.MainActivity"
          android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
          &lt;intent-filter&gt;
              &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
              &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
          &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
  
      &lt;meta-data
          android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
          android:value="MY_KEY" /&gt;
      &lt;meta-data
          android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
          android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /&gt;
  &lt;/application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>Update:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;meta-data
      android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
      android:value="MY_KEY" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>should have read:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;meta-data
          android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
          android:value="MY_KEY" /&gt;
  </code></pre>