For any type of mobile development, you really should be using the v3 API - it's designed for that. Also v3 doesn't require API keys.
Chad Killingsworth On Jun 14, 11:27 am, Chen Song <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am developing an iPhone app which needs to call Google Map V2 > Javascript API to get routing information. The app is using JSON to > generate the request and parse the response. What I observed is that > the response from Google Map is changing and not consistent over time. > > For example, below is a snippet that is part of the response processed > by JSON. As you can see, the value of the root node for the routing > information is "B". But as times goes on, the root node may change its > value to "A". I have found such changes happened several places in the > response and there is no pattern how the keys are changing themselves. > > B = { > Distance = { > html = "2,884 mi"; > meters = 4641558; > }; > Duration = { > html = "1 day 21 hours"; > seconds = 163819; > }; > End = { > coordinates = ( > -121.07983, > 37.705488, > 0 > ); > }; > Steps = ( > { > Distance = { > html = "85 ft"; > meters = 26; > }; > Duration = { > html = "2 secs"; > seconds = 2; > }; > Point = { > coordinates = ( > -74.00615, > 40.71436, > 0 > ); > }; > descriptionHtml = "Head <b>southwest</b> on > <b>Broadway</b> toward <b>Chambers St</b>"; > polylineIndex = 0; > }, > { > Distance = { > html = "0.4 mi"; > meters = 635; > }; > Duration = { > html = "1 min"; > seconds = 87; > }; > Point = { > coordinates = ( > -74.00632, > 40.71416, > 0 > ); > }; > descriptionHtml = "Take the 1st <b>right</b> onto > <b>Chambers St</b>"; > polylineIndex = 2; > }, > ... > > When calling Google Map V2 API from iPhone, I used a Google Map API's > key which is not generated by Google but just an arbitrary character > sequence. My question is as below: > 1) Is the API' key the root cause of the issue I observed in my iPhone > app? > 2) If so, can I resolve the issue by requesting a key officially from > Google? I tried to sign up for a key but it needs me to provide my > homepage URL. As I am using the key in an mobile application instead > of in a website, I don't know how I could request the key without an > website URL. > > Thanks for you time on my question. > > Regards, > Chen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
