Android Question Google places problem

[Alessandra Pellegri]

I am trying to run this GooglePlaces example:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/google-place.52961/#content

When I try to comile it I obtain this error:

B4A version: 5.50
Parsing code.  (0.01s)
Compiling code.  (0.03s)
Compiling layouts code.  (0.00s)
Generating R file.  (0.10s)
Compiling generated Java code.  Error
B4A line: 16
hc.Initialize(\
javac 1.8.0_65
src\tut\escalera\google\place\httputils2service.java:195: error: cannot access ClientProtocolException
_hc.Initialize("hc");
  ^
  class file for org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException not found

I installed Google Play Services from AVD Manager as explained here:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/google-maps-android-v2-tutorial.24415/
but I cannot find google-play-services.jar file.

My folder structure is : ...\AndroidSDK\extras\google\google_play_services and \docs and \samples , there is no libproject folder.
google-play-services.jar is neither found from windows search.


What could I do ?
Thank you

 

[DonManfred]

What could I do ?

replace httputils-lib and http-lib with okHTTP and okHTTPutils

 

[Alessandra Pellegri]

Thank you, now it compiles. Anyway it doesn't work because I cannot add ResorceFolder.
This is what I have in AndroidSDK...Google services folder:

There isn't any res folder but I Google Services are installed from AVD manager.
So how could I proced ?

In any case my target is to send a picture to google to analyze it, as this example:
https://cloud.google.com/vision/

I know that there is a B4A library for vision.faces but I don't want recognize faces but places.

So is this the right road ?

Thank you

 

[Erel]

Google has changed the way that Google Play Services is packaged. You can update to B4A v6 or downgrade to an older version of Google Play Services (and Android Support Library).

 

[Alessandra Pellegri]

I updated to v6.
I started a completely new project following these istructions:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/google-maps.63930/#post-404386

But seems that google-play-services.jar is still needed:

B4A version: 6.00
Parsing code.  (0.00s)
Compiling code.  (0.03s)
Compiling layouts code.  (0.01s)
Organizing libraries.  (0.00s)
Generating R file.  (0.32s)
Compiling generated Java code.  (1.34s)
Convert byte code - optimized dex.  (1.96s)
Packaging files.  (1.75s)
Copying libraries resources  Error
Could not find file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Anywhere Software\Basic4android\libraries\google-play-services.jar'.

 

[Erel]

This is a bug in v6.00. Download the empty google-play-services.jar from this post: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/google-maps.63930/page-4#post-432268 and copy it to the additional libraries folder.

 

[Alessandra Pellegri]

OK, thank you