Android - How to obtain Google API key for Windows ?

There are some steps to obtain a Google API key for windows. The steps are described in detail below.

While you are developing and debugging your application, you will likely be sigining your application in debug mode — that is, the SDK build tools will automatically sign your application using the debug certificate. To let your MapView elements properly display Maps data during this period, you should obtain a temporary Maps API Key registered to the debug certificate. To generate an MD5 fingerprint of the debug certificate, first locate the debug keystore. The default location of debug keystore is