Google Play Services update

Question

Yesterday API 19 came out so I upgraded SDK and other (including Google Play Services) now this method:

private boolean isGooglePlayInstalled(){     int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);     if(status == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS){         return true;     }else{         ((Dialog)GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this,10)).show();     }     return false; } 

Throws at line

int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The meta-data tag in your app's  AndroidManifest.xml does not have the right value.  Expected 4030500 but found 0. You must have the following declaration within the <application> element: <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /> 

How to fix that? I didnt have element

"com.google.android.gms.version"

in manifest before and it worked.

This is my manifest:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     package="com.sabatsoft.driveit"     android:versionCode="1"     android:versionName="1.0" >      <uses-sdk         android:minSdkVersion="16"         android:targetSdkVersion="19" />      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />     <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />      <application         android:allowBackup="true"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"         android:label="@string/app_name" >         <activity             android:name="com.sabatsoft.driveit.activity.Start"             android:label="@string/app_name"             android:screenOrientation="landscape"             android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" >             <intent-filter>                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />                  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />             </intent-filter>         </activity>          <!-- other activities -->          <meta-data             android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"             android:value="AIza*********************************1MZI" />     </application>      <uses-feature         android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"         android:required="true" />  </manifest> 

Answer 1

This worked for me:

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

Place this at the end of your manifest, after your Map API key meta-data tag. Since you check for GPlayServices availability in your onCreate method, such as:

// Check status of Google Play Services int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);  // Check Google Play Service Available try {     if (status != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {         GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, RQS_GooglePlayServices).show();     } } catch (Exception e) {     Log.e("Error: GooglePlayServiceUtil: ", "" + e); } 

...then once you click the dialog box to update GPlayServices, you will be brought to the GPlayStore. Usually, I uninstall from the GPlayStore menu, then the option to update will be available. It should work after that.

Answer 2

Package contents comparison

The "google_play_services_froyo" lib project contains these com.google.android.gms packages:

• appstate
• auth
• common
• dynamic
• games
• gcm
• internal
• location
• maps
• panorama
• plus

On the other hand, the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services" lib project has some additional packages within com.google.android.gms:

• ads
• appstate
• auth
• common
• dynamic
• games
• gcm
• internal
• location
• maps
• panorama
• plus
• wallet

Plus, this package is found in the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services": com.google.ads!

AndroidManifext.xml comparison

The old (rev. 12) "google_play_services" had:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     package="com.google.android.gms"     android:versionCode="3265130"     android:versionName="3.2.65 (834000-30)" >      <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"/>  </manifest>  

The newly introduced "google_play_services_froyo" lib project has:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     package="com.google.android.gms"     android:versionCode="3225130"     android:versionName="3.2.25 (761454-30)" >      <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"/>  </manifest> 

Conclusion

The "google_play_services_froyo" is functionally the same as the old (rev. 12) "google_play_services" lib project, so if you just want to keep your app compatible and don't care about the new APIs, just import the "google_play_services_froyo" in your project and you're good to go.

On the other hand, if you wanted to use the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services" lib project, once you import it, you have to add this to your apps manifest:

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

Hope this helped :)