"Fatal Exceptions: Essential" and "Google Play Services Deprecated" on the emulator

I am new to Android and I am trying to develop an Android application that includes google maps. The app worked fine on the emulator until I decided to update Google Play Services from version 7 to 9.

Now I get the same error that I ran into before ("Google Play services are out of date ...") and also a "fatal exception: major" error. This is what I get in logcat:

http://imageshack.us/a/img11/8117/y1mq.png

If I read the logcat correctly, the error is listed in MapTabActivity, but I don't know if the error is due to Google Play services being out of date or something ...

Before updating Google Play services, the app was working on an emulator with

• Nexus 4 device
• Android 4.2.2 (API lvl 17)
• ARM CPU
• GPU host selected

I also had to install com.android.vending.apk and com.google.android.gms.apk which have been recommended in other posts about this.

I also added the permission required by the manifest and applied it to the API key, which is also included in the manifest.

Can anyone help me? Here's MapTabActivity and the corresponding XML.

MapTabActivity.java

package com.dissertation.closethedoordiss;

import com.google.android.gms.maps.CameraUpdateFactory;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.LatLng;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.view.View;

public class MapTabActivity extends FragmentActivity {

private GoogleMap mMap;
private static final LatLng BRISTOL = new LatLng(51.455083,-2.586903);

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_maptab);


    mMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.mapView)).getMap();
    mMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL);

    mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(BRISTOL, 13));
}

public void onClick_addretailer (View view) {
    startActivity(new Intent("com.closethedoordiss.AddRetailerActivity"));
}  
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

activity_maptab.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

  <fragment
        android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment" 
        android:id="@+id/mapView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />



  <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_add"
        android:onClick="onClick_addretailer"
        android:contentDescription="@string/add_button" />

</RelativeLayout>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Thanks in advance for the help provided.