Requirement to mention Google Play services version in app's manifest

android, android-manifest, google-play-services, version

Solution

Google continuously upgrading it's play service.But as old applications are there, so to support applications which are using old version of play service we need to spacify on what version of play service our application based.

Update:

we include google-play-service lib and the version is based on this lib not on google play service installed in our mobile. so play-service-lib jar will always be inside in our application with it's version code.So google will manage google play service request according to play-service-lib version.

we provide version of google-play-service lib in our manifest

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

and "@integer/google_play_services_version" refers to version of Lib,which is using in our application.

This is just like, We request Facebook installed application or we use Facebook Sdk with our application..Both are different things.

Hope it is clear..

Problem

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