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Learn how to add the Google Play Services Code Library and add permissions to the Android Manifest.
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Now let's finish the setup by adding
in the final pieces to our Android
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studio project.
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Google has a code library to
access Google play services,
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which we'll add with a small
change to our build.dreidel file.
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We'll also need to add some
permissions to the Android manifest.
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First, we need to ensure
the code libraries for
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Google Play Services are downloaded and
up to date.
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We can do this by opening the SDK Manager
and scrolling down to the extra section.
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Ensure the Google Repository,
Google Play Services,
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Android Support Library and Android
Support Repository are all up to date.
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If updates are available,
go ahead and download them now.
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Everything is up to date, so
let's close this window and
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head to the Android manifest.
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We need to add in a metadata tag.
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This tag will store the version of Google
Play Services where building our app with.
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Google Play Services will check this
value when the app requests an API and
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if the Google Play Services on the device
matches the number, it will proceed.
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If it doesn't match and needs updating,
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it'll prompt the user to
update through Play Store.
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We just added as a metadata
tag within our application.
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The android:name is
com.google.android.gms.version.
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GMS stands for Google Mobile Services,
which is the legacy name for
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Google Play Services.
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The value is actually stored
in Google Play Services,
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it's
@integer/google_player_services_version.
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You'll notice here that it doesn't
show up and that's because we
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haven't included Google Play Services in
our app yet and we need to do that next.
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To do that, we just go ahead and
go to our build.dreidel file and
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we're gonna need to add in a dependency
in the dependency section.
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Use the compile statement and
the dependency
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we want is com.google.android.gms and
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it's play-services-plus and
then the version that we want.
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Every time that we change
our build.dreidel,
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it's gonna ask us to reimport.
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So we're going to go ahead and
just click Sync Now.
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Once it syncs, you can see that the
version now shows up in our metadata tag
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and all we need to do is complete this by
closing our tag and that's properly done.
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Finally, we need to add in a few
permissions that are required by Google
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play Services.
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The three permissions we need
are Internet, GET_ACCOUNTS and
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USE_CREDENTIALS.
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Let's go ahead and add those in here.
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If you just start typing
in the one you want,
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it will fuzzy find in
the list of permissions.
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The next is GET_ACCOUNTS.
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And finally, USE_CREDENTIALS.
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Great.
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Now that we've done this, just go ahead
and make sure everything is good.
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I'm just gonna click sync all,
make sure our app syncs with gradle,
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everything will build right.
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When dependent on Google Play Services,
we need to keep in mind that not
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every Android device will
have access to these APIs.
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Your app should handle this gracefully.
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So here's what the app's gonna look
like when we're building it with
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Google Play Services.
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With Google Play services,
a user can plus one the listings and
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that'll recommend those
listings to their friends or
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they can possibly share it
using Google Plus directly.
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Here's what our app looks like when
Google Play Services are not available.
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You'll notice that the plus one is gone
now, but the Share button remains.
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Instead of directly
sharing to Google Plus,
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we'll provide a fall back mechanism
to the default share menu.
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Later on, we'll walk through the steps
needed to make sure we know how to handle
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this situation.
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Great.
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We've got all the pieces in
place to start building our app.
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Before we move on though,
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let's run the app to make sure
everything is in working order.
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If you have any errors building, rewind
and make sure you didn't skip any steps.
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Let's take a break.
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And in the next stage,
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we can write some code to display
the listings from the Etsy API.
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