Google Maps Fragment returning null inside a fragment

Question

So I have an empty fragment that contains a map fragment. Whenever I try to activate the fragment containing the map, my app crashes and returns a null pointer error on this

Answer 1

The problem may be related to the fact that your targetSdkVersion is higher than the version of Android Support Library used.

That was my case, in one of the projects we've been working on targetSdkVersion was 21, while Support Library version was 19.0.0. Changing targetSdkVersion to 19 fixed the problem.