Remove Google Play Services from app in Android Studio

Question

I am working on an example app in Android Studio and I somehow accidentally added Google Play Services to one of my Activities. I'm not even sure how I did it, but it added several auto generated methods, variables and imports. I removed all of these and continued to work on the app. Now, a few days later, I found

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-appindexing:8.1.0'

in my app/build.gradle script and an auto-generated chunk in my manifest file:

<!--
     ATTENTION: This was auto-generated to add Google Play services to your project for
     App Indexing.  See https://g.co/AppIndexing/AndroidStudio for more information.
-->
<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
    android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

under the <application> tag. When I remove them and build the project, the <meta-data> tag is regenerated in the manifest, which causes the build to fail since I removed the dependency in build.gradle.

How do I completely remove Google Play Services from the app and build system to stop this? What have I missed?

Answer 1

As @Chinmay stated, removing all references to Google Play Service/App indexing and deleting '<-path-android-project->/app/build' solved this for me, also.

Thanks

Answer 2

It just suggestion not a solution as I don't know your complete scenario. Delete all dependencies and all the build folders from your application and rebuild the project.At least It will prompt you where the play services dependency is present

Hope it will work

Answer 3

Don't worry, it's easy. I had same problem and I resolved it, while deleting this line of source code from dependency.

I had installed latest Google Play Service in my Android Studio, but I was using the below line in dependency.

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:11.8.0'

Just remove this line if you are using it.

Answer 4

It's simple

• Click right on app -> Open Modules settings
• Click Dependency tab
• Select play-services line
• and click delete (small minus on top right)

That's it