I got this error: ERROR/MapActivity(258): Couldn\'t get connection factory client
Everything worked fine, it\'s all of a sudden, how come that happens?
I know my api key is fine, because one month I\'ve been using it perfectly.
How come all of a sudden it doesn\'t show me the map activity, and posts that error in the logcat?
I\'m getting the same problem when using getFromLocationName, with a \'java.io.IOException:Service not Available\' error.
I\'ve done a bit of googling around and it seems this is a bug in the software.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8816
I had reinstalled Android dev kit on my new system and the debug.keystore had changed.
Once I used the keytool to make a new MD5 and registered that with Google I was back in action with a fresh apiKey.
\"Couldn\'t get connection factory client\" is a weird message for an invalid apiKey !
I had the same problem with API level 8 on both emulator and a physical device (2.2) Actually, for me it never worked. Then by chance I tried on emulator API level 10 (with Google API of course), and it worked just fine.
(Before that, I got a new MD5 with the keytool in order to register for a new apikey. However, I got exactly the same as the first time! Maybe I didn\'t use the keytool correctly.)
I had this error but nothing useful in the Logcat output to determine the AV.
I simply cleaned my project in Eclipse and then I got a proper stack trace of the problem, which was nothing related to MapView. It was just that the MapView was based in the first activity visible.