Where can i add google-services.json in xamarin app

Question

Hi we are developing Xamarin application where we want monitor how many peoples install application from our referral id.

Im find this document https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v4/ where it says "Copy the google-services.json file you just downloaded into the app/ or mobile/ directory of your Android Studio project.".

I have visual studio (2013) project where these folders are missing of course. Question is, where i add the google-services.json file in visual studio project ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I don't know when it became necessary, but as I'm posting this (in May 2017), it is necessary. I placed mine in the same directory that my Android .csproj file was located. I then added it to the project and made sure that Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Base.targets was in my .csproj. I read that rebuilding would be sufficient for making the proper build action to appear, but building and restarting XS is what did it for me. The final result in my .csproj was this:

<ItemGroup>
    <GoogleServicesJson Include="google-services.json" />
</ItemGroup>