This Cordova/Phonegap plugin for Android aligns various versions of the Play Services library specified by other plugins to the latest release (or a specific) version.

Table of Contents

• Purpose
• Installation
• Different library versions
  • Default version
  • Other versions
• Example
• License

TL;DR: To prevent build failures caused by including different versions of the Play Services library.

Some Cordova plugins include the Play Services library to faciliate them. Most commonly, these are now included into the Cordova project by specifying them as Gradle dependencies (see the Cordova plugin spec documenation).

Example plugins:

• cordova-plugin-googleplus)
• phonegap-plugin-push@1
• google-analytics-plugin

The problem arises when these plugins specify different versions of the Play Services library. This can cause build failures to occur, which are not easy to resolve without changes by the plugin authors to align the specified versions. See these issues:

• phonegap-plugin-push#17720
• google-analytics-plugin#427
• cordova-plugin-googleplus#398

To resolve these version collisions, this plugin injects a Gradle configuration file into the native Android platform project, which overrides any versions specified by other plugins, and forces them to the version specified in its Gradle file.

If you're encountering similar problems with the Android Support libraries, checkout the sister plugin: cordova-android-support-gradle-release.

$ cordova plugin add cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release

Just install the plugin and that's it. It should fix should build.

By default, the master branch of this repo and corresponding npm release, will be made to specify the most major version of the most recent release of the Play Services library - see here for a list recent versions.

In some cases, you may want to specify a different version of the Play Services library. So this plugin provides branches for various older major versions of the Play Services library.

Because Cordova doesn't support tags in plugins sourced from npm, you'll need to install this version directly from the git repo:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release#v10

The following branches currently exist:

• master (default)
  • The most recent major release
  • Currently uses 11.+
  • Install with: cordova plugin add cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
  • Or: https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
• edge
  • The most recent release
  • Uses +
  • Install with: cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release#edge
• v11
  • The highest v11 version
  • Uses 11.+
  • Install with: cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release#v11
• v10
  • The highest v10 version
  • Uses 10.+
  • Install with: cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release#v10
• v9
  • The highest v9 version
  • Uses 9.+
  • Install with: cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release#v9

Forces the latest release version of the Play Services library to fix the build issue.

1. cordova create test1 && cd test1/
2. cordova platform add android@latest
3. cordova plugin add [email protected]
4. cordova compile

Observe the build succeeds and in the console output is v10.2.6 of Play Services library:

:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesBase1026Library

5. cordova plugin add [email protected]
6. cordova compile

Observe the build failed and in the console output is higher than v10.2.6 (e.g v11.0.0) of Play Services library:

:prepareComGoogleAndroidGmsPlayServicesBase1100Library

7. cordova plugin add cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
8. cordova compile

Observe the build succeeds and in the console output is latest release version of Play Services library.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Dave Alden / Working Edge Ltd.

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