error: package com.google.android.gms.ads does not exist

Question

My Android app did work well (API 15) untill I wanted to include Google ads. Although google-play-services.jar is in my project library and it contains com.google.android.gms.ads, the debugger comes up with an error: package com.google.android.gms.ads does not exist when using: ``` import com.google.android.gms.ads.*; ``` I tried several solutions, but none of them worked. I changed from Android 4.03 API15 to Google API15 but nothing changed. What am I doing wrong?

Accepted Answer

There might be several years have been already gone but no good solution. So, someone like me facing the same trouble till today. I have solved it by the following method (check the attached figure)-

Add the marked line in the gradle

Add the following code in the gradle.

```
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.8.0'
```

error: package com.google.android.gms.ads does not exist

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