WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:08.480 The first step in adding Google Maps to your Android applications is to get the API key. 00:08.840 --> 00:18.880 A Google Maps API key is a unique identifier that authenticates your apps requests to Google's mapping 00:19.000 --> 00:19.960 services. 00:20.160 --> 00:22.480 It ensures authentication. 00:22.480 --> 00:31.160 Google knows who's using their API's, user tracking monitors, requests for billing, if applicable, 00:31.160 --> 00:35.680 and security restricts access to only your app. 00:35.840 --> 00:38.840 Your key can access multiple APIs. 00:39.000 --> 00:49.000 Maps SDK for Android, display images in apps, places API searches for location businesses and directions 00:49.040 --> 00:58.040 API get routes between points, and also you can benefit from the key using the geocoding API that converts 00:58.080 --> 01:00.760 addresses to coordinates and vice versa. 01:00.880 --> 01:07.240 Each may require separate enablement in Google Cloud Console will. 01:07.280 --> 01:13.200 In this video, we're going to enable Android Maps and Google Maps SDK. 01:13.440 --> 01:16.720 And we're going to use it in our project. 01:16.720 --> 01:28.800 Let's move to get and generate our Google Maps API key, open Google Chrome, go to console Cloud.google.com, 01:28.840 --> 01:31.760 log in into your Google account. 01:31.760 --> 01:35.480 I have created the before many projects. 01:35.720 --> 01:37.880 Don't worry, you can get uh. 01:39.000 --> 01:45.920 You are going to create the projects by clicking here and create new project. 01:45.920 --> 01:48.560 Then select the project name. 01:48.560 --> 01:58.720 I'll name it as Google Maps Compose app, then select the location No Organization and click on create. 01:58.760 --> 02:01.280 We succeeded in creating the project. 02:01.280 --> 02:03.160 Click Select project. 02:03.160 --> 02:06.760 Make sure that your project appear here. 02:06.800 --> 02:10.040 Okay, so here we are on our project. 02:10.040 --> 02:12.560 There is a very important thing here. 02:12.560 --> 02:13.680 I should mention. 02:13.680 --> 02:19.480 All APIs require a Google Cloud project with billing enabled. 02:19.480 --> 02:26.600 You will need to generate an API key and restrict it properly, for example by app or referrer. 02:26.760 --> 02:31.320 Some APIs are free up to a quota then billed per use. 02:31.520 --> 02:39.840 So as I told you in the previous video, um, we're not gonna exceed this, this quota and we're not 02:39.880 --> 02:44.760 gonna pay anything just for demonstration, also for basic usages. 02:44.760 --> 02:52.640 And you can share your app across your friends, but, uh, and other users, and you can use it properly. 02:52.640 --> 02:55.680 But there is a certain limit, a certain quota. 02:55.720 --> 02:57.760 We're going to discover it later on. 02:57.960 --> 02:58.480 Okay. 02:58.680 --> 02:59.680 So don't worry. 02:59.880 --> 03:03.560 Just, um, just log in into your account. 03:03.920 --> 03:07.760 Uh, also open the project by using the project picker. 03:08.000 --> 03:13.200 And here we are inside the Google Maps Compose app project. 03:13.200 --> 03:16.130 To get the Google Maps SDK. 03:16.170 --> 03:18.610 We can search for a resource here. 03:18.610 --> 03:20.570 For example maps. 03:20.570 --> 03:23.010 Here we have Google Maps platform. 03:23.010 --> 03:28.210 Also, we can scroll down to get the products embed maps. 03:28.250 --> 03:30.810 Google maps platform, geocoding API. 03:30.850 --> 03:35.330 You can see that this is an API that convert addresses to coordinates. 03:35.610 --> 03:42.370 Also, you can get the places API, find info about places, the direction API, get routes and navigation 03:42.370 --> 03:47.090 info, and embed maps in websites using the maps JavaScript API. 03:47.130 --> 03:52.970 Also, you can discover Google products using the view all products. 03:53.010 --> 03:57.490 Okay, but we are interested in the Google Maps platform. 03:57.490 --> 03:58.410 Click on it. 03:58.450 --> 04:01.690 We need to enable it for our project. 04:01.690 --> 04:04.450 And here we get our API key. 04:04.690 --> 04:14.730 Copy it, don't share it across any of your applications, any of your users friends, or even make 04:14.730 --> 04:15.450 it public. 04:15.690 --> 04:21.330 All you can, uh, restrict it for security, so don't worry. 04:21.370 --> 04:25.210 Copy this API key notepad. 04:25.370 --> 04:29.690 And here we have a new tab and paste it here okay. 04:29.930 --> 04:33.210 Then click go to Google Maps platform. 04:33.210 --> 04:39.890 Select Enable or Google Maps APIs for this project and click go to Maps Platform. 04:39.890 --> 04:47.010 Then we have the new API keys can only be used with Google Maps platform APIs and services. 04:47.010 --> 04:53.210 You should set additional restriction additional restrictions to prevent unexpected usage. 04:53.490 --> 04:55.410 Select Android apps. 04:55.650 --> 04:58.050 Then we have the package name. 04:58.050 --> 04:59.610 This is for security. 04:59.650 --> 05:03.650 We can make it later, but it's very important now. 05:03.890 --> 05:08.730 Restricts API key usage to specified Android apps. 05:08.890 --> 05:16.010 Add package name and a one certificate fingerprint for each app. 05:16.050 --> 05:17.890 This is for security. 05:17.890 --> 05:23.810 So in the next video we're going to learn how to get the one certificate fingerprint. 05:23.810 --> 05:26.530 And we're going to create our project in Android.