Google Maps V2 – Error inflating class Fragment

I know this is probably a dead thread but just in case someone stumbles upon here having an identical problem – your manifest might be missing the following meta information:

<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
    android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

Declare it within the <application> element and your code should work. I ran into the same issue following a youtube tutorial that skipped this step and only when carefully going through the original Google tutorial I noticed the missing code.

Anyway, hope this helps someone.

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