Android Question Re: Check and install Google Play Services

[Semen Matusovskiy]

Hi, guys --

Because I use Google Map, I decided to check Erel's code in action.
To do this I took Android's emulator SDK 22 without Google Play Services.

Absolutelly unclear how to integrate correctly. isGooglePlayServicesAvailable finds that it's necessary to install. We run makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable.
But
1) how to detect that this funcion is finished and with which result ?
2) in my case makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable informed that my app will not run without Google Play Services. Surprise I expect that makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable will install Google API.

Any ideas ?

PS. It looks that to receive result of makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable is not one line of code.

https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/common/GoogleApiAvailability

 

[Erel]

Relevant code: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/check-and-install-google-play-services.84813/

You should call CheckForGooglePlayServices from Activity_Resume. If it returns False then it is not available.

If it will try to install Google Play Services then Activity_Resume will be called again and this time it will return true.

 

[Semen Matusovskiy]

I call from Activity_Resume. But what activity should do after calling makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable ? To exit from Activity_Resume ? To sleep ?
I don't see the process of installation anyway. Alone what I see it's a message from makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable function - "Your app won't run without Google Play Services ..."

 

[Erel]

I don't see the process of installation anyway. Alone what I see it's a message from makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable function - "Your app won't run without Google Play Services ..."

This is managed by Google Play Service SDK. I can only guess that it wasn't able to make the installation.

I call from Activity_Resume. But what activity should do after calling makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable ?

Show a message that a component is missing and you are trying to install it and don't do anything else.

 

[Semen Matusovskiy]

Thanx, Erel -- I did exactly so But to use makeGooglePlayServicesAvailable sounds interesting. It's enough complex to find Google services in Play market. Too many applications with similar names. Meanwhile AliExpress is enough popular, so enough many persons have Chineese firmware without Google.