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Google Map on Android With Play Service 7

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The previous blog post solved some basic problems you may have: Android App With Google Map API V2

Google Play Service 7 installation/upgrade

Option 1

You can either run $ android sdk, select to install your Google Play Service, also api 16, for some reasons, you may need this to support the play 7.
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Option 2
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$ android update sdk --no-ui --force --filter platform-tools,extra-android-support,android-17,sysimg-17,extra-google-google_play_services  

$ android update sdk --no-ui --force --filter android-16

GMS-MVN help setup

Add the gms-mvn as your git submodule.

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[submodule "vendor/gms-mvn"]
  path = vendor/gms-mvn
  url = git://github.com/JakeWharton/gms-mvn-install.git

And automate the installation.

setup.sh 
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export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools:${ANDROID_HOME}/build-tools

git submodule init
git submodule update

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

cp vendor/gms-mvn/gms-mvn-install.sh ${ANDROID_HOME}/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/
(cd ${ANDROID_HOME}/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/ && ./gms-mvn-install.sh 7)

Update pom.xml

Add Google Play Service 7 to pom, also update the android-maven-plugin to 3.6.0.

pom.xml partially 
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<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.android.gms</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-play-services</artifactId>
    <version>7</version>
    <type>apklib</type>
</dependency>

<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>

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