[android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Ab
My application integrates with Google Drive using the old api, it does not include Google's library project (instead it includes a bunch of jars like 'google-api-client-1.12.0-beta.jar', 'google-api-services-drive-v2-rev59-1.12.0-beta.jar', etc...). This causes an issue because this line in

Re: [android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
For what it's worth -- I've got 6111000 in my app right now (6.1.something) and the newest version is 7.0.something, works fine. There's got to be some backwards compatibility, but maybe it doesn't go quite as far as 6 - 4 (your 4030500) and the app-side library itself checks the installed Play

Re: [android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
This is the minimum required Google Play Services version. When a device has a lower version, the system will prompt the user to update via a status bar notification saying app XXX requires Google Play Services update (or some such), linked to Google Play app. -- K 2015-04-06 16:28 GMT+03:00

Re: [android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Ab
If I hardcode it to some previous version number, such as 4030500, my app crashes with stack traces saying that version 658700 was expected. I'm wondering if my solution, importing the version.xml file, will prevent or result in crashes on devices with older versions and/or devices with newer