<img src=”pic.jpg” height=”80″ />

Also, if you are using any sort of table or div containers for the image, it would also help to specify the height of the container element to make sure Gmaps knows to account for it.

<table>
<tr height=”80″>
<td>
<img src=”pic.jpg” height=”80″ />
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Hope that helps you solve this little problem.

So instead of doing this in code behind

summary.DataSourceID = "summaryDS";
summary.DataBind();


I need to do this on the page

<asp :FormView ID="summary"
runat="server"
DataSourceID="summaryDS">


A previous problem I encountered with formview

This is a great way to debug your Android app on a G1 or any Android driven device via USB.  It is a much better way to go than the emulator if you have the resources.

If you are using PHP with mysql, there is another work around.  PHP has a function called, register_shutdown_function, which will execute a function during the shutdown of processing a script file. So if we add an UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY sql statement wrapped in a function that is passed to register_shutdown_function, we can allow the user to receive the page without delay while the UPDATE statement waits until all locks on the table has been release before proceeding.

function update_delayed()
{
$sql = "UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY table_name SET col1 = 'something'";
mysql_query($sql, $conn);
}

register_shutdown_function('update_delayed');


I wonder if there are even better ways to handle this problem.

First, I tried using a self-signed keystore instead of the the debug.keystore provided through the Android SDK.  I created my keystore using keytool -genkey from JDK.  Then I switch the app from using the default, debug.keystore, to my-new-self-signed.keystore.  Using keytool -list, I got the MD5 of the certificate that is needed to obtain a Google Map API key.  Then the API key was put into the MapView android:apikey attribute.  When I brought up the app in the emulator, I got a blank map grid screen.  The reason I wanted to use the self-signed keystore instead of the debug keystore is so I don’t have to obtain a new Map API key and change the code to reflect this upon releasing the app.

So, I decided to go with the debug.keystore and that worked fine.  Here is what I had to do.

1. $ keytool -list -alias androiddebugkey -keystore <path_to_debug_keystore>.keystore -storepass android -keypass android

2. Copy that MD5 and goto http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.html
3. Signup for an API key
4. In my xml file that has the views for the activity, add

   <com.google.android.maps.MapView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:enabled="true"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:apiKey="example_Maps_ApiKey_String"
    />

5. In the Manifest.xml file, add the permissions needed
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET”></uses-permission>
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
6. In the Manifest.xml file, add the maps library
   <uses-library android:name=”com.google.android.maps” />
   within the application tag
7. The entire Manifest.xml looks like this
   <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
   <manifest xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”
   package=”com.informationideas.mapapp”
   android:versionCode=”1″
   android:versionName=”1.0.0″>
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET”></uses-permission>
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”></uses-permission>
   <application android:icon=”@drawable/icon” android:label=”@string/app_name”>
   <uses-library android:name=”com.google.android.maps” />
   <activity android:name=”.ShowDesktop”
   android:label=”@string/app_name”>
   <intent-filter>
   <action android:name=”android.intent.action.MAIN” />
   <category android:name=”android.intent.category.LAUNCHER” />
   </intent-filter>
   </activity>
   </application>
   </manifest>
8. The default activity file should look like this

   package com.informationideas.mapapp;
   import android.os.Bundle;
   import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;

   public class ShowDesktop extends MapActivity {

   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
   super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
   setContentView(R.layout.main);

   }

   @Override
   protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {
   // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   return false;
   }
   }

Now off to building cool things with the map!

To solve the problem, make sure to issue an exit() command after a header location command.

function strip_all_tags($content)
{
$content = preg_replace(‘/\n/’,’ ‘,$content);
$content = preg_replace(‘/<script.*<\/script>/U’,’ ‘,$content);
$content = preg_replace(‘/<style.*<\/style>/U’,’ ‘,$content);
$content = strip_tags(strtolower($content));
return $content;
}

The function will remove all line breaks so strip_tags will not have problems with finding all markups.  Since strip_tags does not remove <style> tags, the new function will remove them using regex.