How do I match a Google Play Services revision with an install version?
android, android-gradle-plugin, build.gradle, google-play-services, gradle
Solution
OK, I haven't quite managed to find a mapping of one to the other, but I've managed the next best thing which is to see a list of Play Services long version numbers installed on my development machine.
For Windows, it's in `[android-sdk]\extras\google\m2repository\com\google\android\gms\play-services` (where `[android-sdk]` is the path to your Android SDK folder).
On a Mac, it's inside the Android.app package: browse to `sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services`
The latest version on my machine was 5.0.77 (not 5.0.84), and putting that in my build.gradle worked fine.
Here's the kind of thing you should see at that location:
Problem
Android SDK Manager notified me this morning that there was a new Google Play Services release to download: revision 18. So how do I find the corresponding long version number to put in my build.gradle file? All my test devices are running version 5.0.84, so I tried updating ``` compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:4.4.52' ``` to ``` compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:5.0.84' ``` But that resulted in an error: Gradle 'MyApp' project refresh failed: Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services:5.0.84. Required by: {my app} Gradle settings I'm running Android Studio 0.5.2 and building for API19 (I haven't upgraded to Android L/API20 yet): maybe that's the issue? But in general, how do you match a revision number shown in SDK Manager (e.g. 18) with a version code for build.gradle (e.g. 5.0.84)? Here's my full build.gradle in case it helps: ``` apply plugin: 'android' android { compileSdkVersion 19 buildToolsVersion "19.1.0" defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 14 targetSdkVersion 19 versionCode 1 versionName "1.0" } buildTypes { release { runProguard false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt' } } // Avoid "Duplicate files copied in APK" errors when using Jackson packagingOptions { exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE' } } dependencies { // Was "compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:+'" but this caused build errors when L SDK released compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.1.0' compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) // Support for Google Cloud Messaging // Was "compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'" but this caused build errors when L SDK released compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.1.0' compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:5.0.84' // Jackson compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.3.3' compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.3.3' compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.3.3' } ```