Google Play Service - SupportMapFragment.getMap() always returning null [duplicate]

Answer 1

As CommonsWare stated in the linked question, the problem only occures when creating the SupportMapFragment programmatically and not a <fragment> XML tag.

If created programmatically, the map will be available in the onActivityCreated() call. So my workaround is the following:

mMapFragment = new SupportMapFragment() {
            @Override
            public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
                GoogleMap map = mMapFragment.getMap();
                if (map != null) {
                    //Your initialization code goes here
                }
            }
        };