Add Google Play Services to Android Studio using Gradle

Question

Im working on simple map app, I added google-play-services.jar and its reference to gradle

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar', 'libs/google-play-services.jar')
}

The main activity:

setContentView(R.layout.activity_mapui);

GoogleMap map = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();

layout file

<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/>

But the app crashes on the device

E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.google.android.gms.R$styleable at com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMapOptions.createFromAttributes(Unknown Source) at com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment.onInflate(Unknown Source)

I tried several ways, same issue, I just want to add google services to Android Studio 0.3 with Gradle 0.6+

Answer 1

Add this line in the dependencies section of your build.gradle file:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:3.2.+'

You don't need to add a .jar to your libs folder.

Edit

As Varun pointed out, you also need to update the SDK to contain the most recent version of the play services.

You can do this by opening up the Android SDK Manager (under the Window tab) from Eclipse+ADT, checking the box next to Google Play services in the Extras folder, and clicking install.

Answer 2

Hit check on all tools, to be safe

Hit check on API you are working with

Hit check on all extras to be safe

Go to file -> project structure

Finally go to build at the top of the screen and hit rebuild project