How to download Google Play Services in an Android emulator

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I want to use Google Play Services API in my application  but when I open the emulator to test my application it sends me a message that says  Google Play Services must be downloaded   I know that occurs because I coded this test in my MainActivity in the method onResume    I want to know how I can install Google Play Services in my emulator  because soon I will need to test my maps

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To the latest setup and information if you have installed the Android Studio (i.e. 1.5) and trying to target SDK 4.0 then you may not be able to locate and setup the and AVD Emulator with SDK-vX.XX (with Google API's).

See following steps in order to download the required library and start with that. AVD Emulator setup -setting up Emulator for SDK4.0 with GoogleAPI so Map application can work- In Android Studio

But unfortunately above method did not work well on my side. And was not able to created Emulator with API Level 17 (SDK 4.2). So I followed this post that worked on my side well. The reason seems that the Android Studio Emulator creation window has limited options/features.

Google Play Services in emulator, implementing Google Plus login button etc

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The key is to select the target of your emulator to  for example  Google APIs  ver 18   If you select  for example  just Jellybean 18  without API  you will not be able to test apps that require Google services such as map  Keep in mind that you must first download the Google API of your favorite version with the Android SDK Manager   This is a good practice and it is far better than juggling with most workarounds

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Go to https   university xamarin com resources working-with-android-emulators   Scroll down to the  Installing Google Play Services  section   Step by step walk through there   Directly plagarized from xamarin here so I don t get dinged for linking and not including solution   Posting this as I found the hit in stack before I found the solution that worked across the board on the xamarin page    Start the Xamarin Android Player and run one of the supplied images  the following assumes you have started the KitKat Nexus 4 image  Download the proper Google Play Services  zip file from www teamandroid com gapps    Make sure to download the image appropriate for your version of Android  Drag the  zip file onto the running emulator and drop it to install the component  here we show it on Mac OS X  but the same mechanism is used in Windows  You will get a prompt to install the package onto the emulator which indicates the image will be restarted Once it restarts  you will get a notification that installation is completed  and the image will now have Google Maps  Google  and support for the Google Play store  Note that some things do not work correctly and you may get a few errors from some of the services  but you can safely dismiss these and continue the instructions  Next  you will need to associate a Google account so that you can update the services using the Google Play store  It should prompt you for this  but if it does not  you can go into the Google Settings and add a new account  Once you ve added the account  you can then update the Google apps by opening the Google Play store application and going into settings from the side bar menu  Select Settings and then scroll down to the Build Version number information and double-tap on it until it tells you it is either up-to-date  or that it will download and install a new version  Power off the device  press and hold the power button in the toolbar on the right  and restart it  Once it restarts  it should indicate that it needs to update the Google Play services  tapping the notification will open the Google Play Store and install the latest version   Now you can run applications that depend on Google Maps in the Xamarin Android Player

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Check out Setting Up Google Play Services which says      To develop an app using the Google Play services APIs  you need to set up your project with the Google Play services SDK       If you haven t installed the Google Play services SDK yet  go get it now by following the guide to Adding SDK Packages       To test your app when using the Google Play services SDK  you must use either          A compatible Android device that runs Android 2 3 or higher and includes Google Play Store    The Android emulator with an AVD that runs the Google APIs platform based on Android 4 2 2 or higher

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I got it working by   Installing the Google Play Services through the Android SDK Manager Using a Galaxy Nexus Device  4 65   720 x 1280  xhdpi  Targeting the Android 4 2 2 Google API Level 17

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I know this is an old question  but I got here because I had a similar problem as everyone above  I solved it by just reading a little closer   I hadn t noticed there were 2 possible system Images I could choose from  one that contained Google APIs and one that didn t  on my laptop the menu was too small for me to read the  with Google APIs  text appended   It s a stupid thing to miss  but someone else might have a small screen like I did  and miss this  D

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I came across another solution to use the Google play services on an emulator   The guys at http   www genymotion com  provide very fast emulators on which you can install Google play services   They just need you to sign up to begin downloading and you need Virtual box installed   At the moment they cater for Android 16 and 17 but more are on the way

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In the current version  Android Studio 0 5 2  there is now a device type for  Google APIs x86  Google Inc   - API Level 19

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This is how you make Android Google Maps API v2 work on your emulator     Create a new emulator   for device choose  5 1   WVGA  480 x 800  mdpi   for target choose  Android 4 1 2 - API level 16   for  CPU ABI  choose  ARM  leave rest to defaults   these are the settings that are working for me  I don t know for different ones     Start the emulator    install com android vending-1 apk and com google android gms-1 apk via ADB install command    The longer answer is on my blog post about this issue https   medium com nemanja-kovacevic how-to-make-android-google-maps-v2-work-in-android-emulator-e384f5423723

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For api 21  you can use system image with Google Play as I describe below   For api 19   Android 4 4 Kitkat  you can use system image x86 with Google Api  I was able to use it     For api 17   Android 4 2 2  you can TRY to use system image ARM with Google Api  It didn t work for me    I was able to install Google Play and Google Services as separate apks to pure system image api 16 and 17  but they don t really work after that  services crush and play not opens   So seems like it is not possible to make them work on pure AVD image because they should be installed with root access  The same for updating Google Services on AVD system image with Google API preinstalled - can t update because of incompatible certificates  can t uninstall even using adb because don t have access     How to setup AVD system image with Google Play  Now even better solution exist  using AVD image with build-in Google Play Services  It will enable you to use Google Services including Google Play  Also you will be able update it without re-creating AVD image   Open AVD manager and choose create new device  You should use device definition with play store icon     Then choose system image for it  You should choose one with Google Play and NOT with Google API     Then launch new device     You can update Play Services as shown on screenshot  or manually on device

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If your emulator x86 this method works your me   Download and install http   opengapps org app opengapps-app-v16 apk  And select nano pack  More info http   opengapps org app

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I tried to develop google MAP API V2 application recently and tried to run it through emulator but I everytime it showed me error  Google Play Servcies is not installed in this phone   From my perpective even I think google MAP API V2 doesn t work on emulator   Solution   Then I tried to run the same example on my Sony Experia you and again it showed me same error  Then I installed google play services on my mobile and amazingly it started working

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