Adding Google Play services version to your app's manifest?

It is probably that your library is not linked to project properly or that you have older google-play-services library version so conflict appears and Eclipse got stupid.. :S

No you don't need to add anything in integers.xml. When you link properly Google-play-services library to your project reference android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" will be found and you are ready to go. When you add library to your project just do one more clean so funny Eclipse environment sweep-out things properly.

If you hardcode somewhere this number when next play version come you would need to update it. And if you forget that, you will spend time again looking for bug.. :S

Hope it helped. ;)

I got the solution.

• Step 1: Right click on your project at Package explorer(left side in eclipse)
• Step 2: goto Android.

• Step 3: In Library section Add Library...(google-play-services_lib)
  see below buttes

  • Copy the library project at

  <android-sdk>/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/

  • to the location where you maintain your Android app projects. If you are using Eclipse, import the library project into your workspace. Click File > Import, select Android > Existing Android Code into Workspace, and browse to the copy of the library project to import it.
  • Click Here For more.
• Step 4: Click Apply
• Step 5: Click ok
• Step 6: Refresh you app from package Explorer.
• Step 7: you will see error is gone.

From here

You should be referencing a copy of the library that you copied to your development workspace—you should not reference the library directly from the Android SDK directory.

I faced this error because I referenced the original copy from SDK directory. Make sure that you first copy the library to android workspace and only reference it. In eclipse you can do it by checking "Copy projects into workspace" while importing the project.

In Android Studio you can fix this by simply adding this to your Gradle file:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.5.87'

EDIT

Now, due to updates and new Gradle API the line you should use is:

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:12.0.0'

One more important tip: Avoid using bundled version of Google Play Services, but consider declaring just dependencies that your app needs to reduce it size as well as to reduce unnecessary hit to 65k methods limit. Something like (i.e. for Maps) this would be better than general play-services usage above:

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:12.0.0'