Google Play Services update

Yesterday API 19 came out so I upgraded SDK and other (including Google Play Services) now this method:

private boolean isGooglePlayInstalled(){
    int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
    if(status == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS){
        return true;
    }else{
        ((Dialog)GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this,10)).show();
    }
    return false;
}

Throws at line

int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The meta-data tag in your app's 
AndroidManifest.xml does not have the right value.  Expected 4030500 but found 0.
You must have the following declaration within the <application> element:
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

How to fix that? I didnt have element

"com.google.android.gms.version"

This is my manifest:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.sabatsoft.driveit"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="16"
        android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.sabatsoft.driveit.activity.Start"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:screenOrientation="landscape"
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <!-- other activities -->

        <meta-data
            android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
            android:value="AIza*********************************1MZI" />
    </application>

    <uses-feature
        android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
        android:required="true" />

</manifest>

Solution 1:

This worked for me:

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

Place this at the end of your manifest, after your Map API key meta-data tag. Since you check for GPlayServices availability in your onCreate method, such as:

// Check status of Google Play Services
int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

// Check Google Play Service Available
try {
    if (status != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, RQS_GooglePlayServices).show();
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    Log.e("Error: GooglePlayServiceUtil: ", "" + e);
}

...then once you click the dialog box to update GPlayServices, you will be brought to the GPlayStore. Usually, I uninstall from the GPlayStore menu, then the option to update will be available. It should work after that.

Solution 2:

Package contents comparison

The "google_play_services_froyo" lib project contains these com.google.android.gms packages:

• appstate
• auth
• common
• dynamic
• games
• gcm
• internal
• location
• maps
• panorama
• plus

On the other hand, the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services" lib project has some additional packages within com.google.android.gms:

• ads
• appstate
• auth
• common
• dynamic
• games
• gcm
• internal
• location
• maps
• panorama
• plus
• wallet

Plus, this package is found in the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services": com.google.ads!

AndroidManifext.xml comparison

The old (rev. 12) "google_play_services" had:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.google.android.gms"
    android:versionCode="3265130"
    android:versionName="3.2.65 (834000-30)" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"/>

</manifest> 

The newly introduced "google_play_services_froyo" lib project has:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.google.android.gms"
    android:versionCode="3225130"
    android:versionName="3.2.25 (761454-30)" >

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"/>

</manifest>

Conclusion

The "google_play_services_froyo" is functionally the same as the old (rev. 12) "google_play_services" lib project, so if you just want to keep your app compatible and don't care about the new APIs, just import the "google_play_services_froyo" in your project and you're good to go.

On the other hand, if you wanted to use the new (rev. 13) "google_play_services" lib project, once you import it, you have to add this to your apps manifest:

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

Hope this helped :)