Is there google maps support on the device?

ok, great

actually i was talking about the api...

so it works in the real device, but non in the emulator?

One other note is that when you run the sample that is provided it is missing a Map Key that needs to be generated by Google. One way to know that you are missing this is if you run the application and all you see is a grey grid. I would recommend that you go here and and follow those directions. Then take the key that you are provided with and place it in the mapview.xml where is says apiKey. This will make the map actually appear.