Re: [android-developers] Maps api key v1?

Hi Ian,

You mean I can use my release key for development also? I do have one, of course, but I will have to look into how to do this. Can you point me in the right direction, perhaps?  That solution will still be a bit fiddly, because I have a FREE and PRO version of the app which both use different certs.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Ian Ni-Lewis <ilewis@google.com> wrote:

I agree, you should have been notified. I do not know why you weren't.

I don't understand the issue with the debug certificate. Do you not have a valid release key certificate that you can use for development?

Ian

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Craig Payne <craig.r.payne@gmail.com> wrote:

Not quite true, Ian. I am trying to fix a bug in an app I released over a year ago, and my debug.keystore certificate has expired. Given that this is the default behaviour (365 day expiry), most developers are not going to be able to use their old API keys to continue development for very long.

I need to make a tiny change, and to do this I will be forced to upgrade to v2, which means I can no longer support Android 1.6.  This will immediately cut out 8% of my users, who will loudly complain and give me bad reviews in Google Play.  They are not able to upgrade because of fragmentation, and are stuck with an old version of Android, which up to now I have been able to support.

I didn't see the "clear communications" that this would be deprecated either, and I pay special attention to emails from Google.  I WAS told by Google that the v2 web-based maps would be deprecated and DID update them in time.

While I might expect something like this from the cowboys at Facebook, I hold Google to a higher standard and I am shocked and disappointed.

It sounds like you're actually from Google, so do you have any solution for us developers who are trying to support Android, but who have existing keys with expired debug certificates?

In any case, you appear to be assuming that we shut down a service without informing its users. This is not the case. We stopped accepting new users into a service which we intend to keep online for a period of several years. No existing users were affected by this change. No users who obtained an API key before beginning development (as they were clearly instructed to do) should have been affected. 

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