Google Play Services aar download for above 11.0.4

Question

From where to download the google-play-services aar files for version 11.6.0 OR above 11.0.4

I know just by adding the dependency in apps build.gradle adds the library in it.

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.6.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.6.0'

This is fair in case of Android Studio.

But as a Unity Developer, I have downloaded the Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin which after import gives the play services ads, lite, basement, gass of version 11.6.0

Now we have some location dependency in our project. So I have downloaded the Android SDK and its stored in this path.

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk

After navigating to /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms,

I got the latest play services library of version 11.0.4 only and if I tried to create a Android Studio project by adding GPS dependency of 11.6.0, its getting added properly.

So my question is,

where google play services library of version 11.6.0 is downloaded. So that I can go to that location and get all the aar file needed for my Unity Project

Answer 1

Following are the details from Android developer documentation:

Programmatic access:

For programmatic access to Google's Maven artifacts, you can get an XML list of artifact groups from maven.google.com/master-index.xml (link) which gives the group path

Then, for any group, you can view its library names and versions at:

maven.google.com/group_path/group-index.xml

For example, libraries in the android.arch.lifecycle group are listed at maven.google.com/android/arch/lifecycle/group-index.xml (link).

You can also download the POM and JAR files at: maven.google.com/group_path/library/version/library-version.ext

For example:

maven.google.com/android/arch/lifecycle/compiler/1.0.0/compiler-1.0.0.pom. (link)

For more details please refer: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies.html#gmaven-access

For complete list of Google Play Services libraries, refer below xml: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/gms/group-index.xml

Eg: To download Google Play Services Location library AAR file, use the following link:

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/gms/play-services-location/11.6.0/play-services-location-11.6.0.aar

You can replace group name, version, file, extension to download other files.

Note: Do check the pom file for each module, it may have dependencies on other Google Play Services libraries. If so, you will need to download all dependent files.

[Update]:

You can use Google's Unity Jar Resolver for this:

https://github.com/googlesamples/unity-jar-resolver