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 Ab <[email protected]>: > 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 my manifest file: > > <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" > android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /> > > Now gives the following error: > > Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'value' with value > '@integer/google_play_services_version'). > > If I just copy the version.xml file from the library project into my > project, the error goes away. The file's contents are: > > <integer name="google_play_services_version">6587000</integer> > > But now I'm wondering, what is the com.google.android.gms.version attribute > anyway? Is it the version number of the google play services on the device? > Copying the file into my workspace seems the same as just hardcoding the > attribute to '6587000'. If so, will this cause issues going forward if > devices update their google play services? Will it cause issues on devices > that currently have an old version of the services installed? (And in all > these cases, how would importing this resource value from the library > project be any better, as that just seems like a hardcoded value as well?) > > Any general insight into the safety of this workaround? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
