Referencing the google-play-services library

Question

I\'m working on a project using the Google Maps Android API v2, and I have a problem when I start referencing google-play-services_lib. A red exclamation mark appears on my proj

Answer 1

When importing the project I checked Copy project into workspace checkbox. That solved it for me, which is quite strange as a matter of fact, but we all know eclipse goes crazy all the time. Btw, I want a working Eclipse for this Christmas.

Answer 2

This happened to me when updating the Android SDK components via the Android SDK Manager. Previously, I had imported a couple of Google libraries (Google Play Services, etc) into my Eclipse workspace and selected the Copy projects into workspace option. The upgrade broke this since the imported libraries' versions were a different version from the main SDK.

Deleting the copied projects from Eclipse, then re-importing them directly from the SDK directory fixed this issue in my case.

Answer 3

Your second message means that you don't have the necessary file for SDK android-8, what you need to do is to open the SDK Manager and download the SDK version you would like to have (For example):

After that you would have the needed jar file, So you can add it to your Google Map project.

Answer 4

What solved it for me was updating some packages ('sdk platform-tools', and 'sdk build-tools' were updated from 16 to 17) in the SDK manager. After that, everything was ok.

I spent nearly half a day to resolve this... I realize this will probably not help anyone, but for the remote 0.1% chance that this DOES help someone I decided to write up my answer here.

Hope this helps someone :-)

Answer 5

google-play-services_lib not found target 'android-8' because it was not installed in your Android SDK.

change your Android target 'android-8' to any other using.

Your Project--->Right Click-->Properites-->Android-->Select Google API 15(whatever you have)-->ok

Or

Add this in Android manifest file.

<uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

you can add target SDK any which you have but it must be Google API.

Answer 6

in your manifiest file add this inside

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