title: A required meta-data tag in your app's AndroidManifest.xml does not exist.
body: <p>I am developing a google maps app for android.</p>
  
  <p>But, somehow my application crashes giving an error like :</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IllegalStateException: A required meta-data tag in your app's AndroidManifest.xml does not exist.  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is what my AndroidManifest.xml looks like:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.example.locations"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk
          android:minSdkVersion="8"
          android:targetSdkVersion="18" /&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/&gt;
    &lt;uses-feature
          android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
          android:required="true"/&gt;
    &lt;permission android:name ="com.example.locations.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" android:protectionLevel="signature"&gt;&lt;/permission&gt;
  
    &lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name="com.example.locations.MainActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
  
            &lt;meta-data
              android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
              android:value="AIzaSyAZhJllASbTnrFta8hj55shKydSi0ks824"/&gt;
  
      &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Log:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>01-09 12:29:35.249: E/AndroidRuntime(7448): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: A required meta-data tag in your app's AndroidManifest.xml does not exist.  You must have the following declaration within the &lt;application&gt; element:     &lt;meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using google maps for this app
  How can i resolve this?</p>