Shared library missing in android.

Question

02-18 00:02:08.432: ERROR/PackageManager(57): Package com.example.brown requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.maps; failing!

I got this

Answer 1

As jfritz42 I got this error on a real device with a custom ROM (Cyanogenmod). The error was caused by the fact that I did not install the Google Apps package, since it contains a lot of apps that just annoy me. However, there is a solution how to install the google.maps library without massing up your system with the 19 Google Apps in this package. Just download the package (zip file) and remove all .apk files from system/app in this zip. Afterwards, you can install the zip by using the ROM Manager or via the recovery mode. Then you should have the maps library installed on your system. The Google Apps included in this package (e.g. the Maps app) can be installed separately afterwards.