Could not find method com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil

Question

I know this question had already a lot of answer and fix...But nothing worked for me...

I'm trying to add the push notification to my android apps. In order to do that, I use the "google-play-services_lib" and the "google-play-services.jar". I followed the tutorial provided by Google Setting Up Google Play Services for Eclipse.

What I did :

• Installing the Google play services with the SDK Manager in Eclipse

• Import an Existing Android Code into Workspace (/android-sdks/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib), with the "Copy projects into workspace" checked...Based on what google suggested

  Note: You should be referencing a copy of the library that you copied to your development workspace—you should not reference the library directly from the Android SDK directory.

• Referencing the library into my project (Right Click -> Properties -> Android -> Library -> Add -> google-play-services_lib)

• Added a copy of the google-play-services.jar into my projetc libs folder.

• Adding the jar file to my build path...I had to uncheck the jar files under the Order and export tab to avoid the following error :

  [2014-07-14 09:41:56 - Dex Loader] Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/android/gms/internal/a;
  [2014-07-14 09:41:56 ] Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/android/gms/internal/a;

• Added the following to my Manifest file :

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

• Creating the pro guard exception

  -keep class * extends java.util.ListResourceBundle {
  protected Object[][] getContents();
  }
  
  -keep public class com.google.android.gms.common.internal.safeparcel.SafeParcelable {
   public static final *** NULL;
   }
  
   -keepnames @com.google.android.gms.common.annotation.KeepName class *
   -keepclassmembernames class * {
   @com.google.android.gms.common.annotation.KeepName *;
   }
  
   -keepnames class * implements android.os.Parcelable {
   public static final ** CREATOR;
   }
  

When i try to simply check if the device have the Google Play Service APK with the following

    GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this)

I always see this error :

Could not find method com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable, referenced from method com.example.testpush.MainActivity.onCreate

And :

07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at com.example.testpush.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:16)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
07-14 10:34:53.631: E/AndroidRuntime(421):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Am I missing something here???? Thanks for any idea.

Answer 1

I ran into this exact same problem. Started clean eclipse workspace (using ADT 23.0.3.1327240). Downloaded the latest Play Services library (v 5.0.89-000) via SDK Manager. Followed all correct instructions, ans still got linker problems when app is launched.

My solution was to use an older version of Play Serices library (luckily still had v4.4.52-000 of the lib in one of my older projects. Download mine here.) Doing a refresh and clean build after importing this older version seems to solve the problem for now.

Hopefully someone will comment on the logged bug and give us a real solution.