updating Google play services in Emulator

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I have gone through many questions like this on Google Play  I am using Android 4 2 2 API 17    My app requires Google play services 8 1   It compiles fine and when it runs on emulator it shows message that  You need to update your Google play services       When I click on update nothing happens    How can I update the Google Play services  without downloading any latest API version

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My answer is not to update the Google play service but work around. Get the play service version of the emulator by using the following code

getPackageManager().getPackageInfo("com.google.android.gms", 0 ).versionName);

For example if the value is "9.8.79" then use the nearest lesser version available com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.8.0'

This will resolve your problem. Get the release history from https://developers.google.com/android/guides/releases#november_2016_-_v100

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Running the app on a virtual device with system image   Google Play API  instead of  Google API  will solve your issue smoothly     Virtual devices Nexus 5x and Nexus 5 supports  Google Play API  image  Google Play API comes with Nougat 7 1 1 and O 8 0    Just follow the below simple steps and make sure your pc is connected to internet    Create a new virtual device by selecting Create Virtual Device left-bottom corner  from Android Virtual Devices Manager  Select the Hardware  Nexus 5x  or  Nexus 5   Download the system image  Nougat  with Google Play or  O  with Google Play   O  is the latest Android 8 0 version  Click on Next and Finish  Run your app again on the new virtual device and click on the  Upgrade now   option that shows along with the warning message  You will be directed to the Play Store and you can update your Google Play services easily    See your app runs smoothly    Note   If you plan to use APIs from  Google Play services  you must use the Google APIs System Image

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Use emulator that has Play Store installed  Updating play services would be as easy as in real device   Since Google introduced Google Play Store images in Android SDK Tools 26 0 0 now emulators comes with installed Google Play Store     From 26 0 3        Adds a new tab in the extended window for Google Play Store images that displays the Play Services version and a button to check for updates to Play Services

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Update On 18-Dec-2017  You can update Google Play Services via the Play Store app in your emulator just as you would on a physical Android device from API 24   check Emulator new features added with stable update from Android Studio v 3 0     Google Play Support - From Google   We know that many app developers use Google Play   Services  and it can be difficult to keep the service up to date in   the Android Emulator system images  To solve this problem  we now   offer versions of Android System Images that include the Play Store   app  The Google Play images are available starting with Android Nougat    API 24   With these new emulator images  you can update Google Play   Services via the Play Store app in your emulator just as you would on   a physical Android device  Plus  you can now test end-to-end install    update  and purchase flows with the Google Play Store         Quick Boot - Quick Boot allows you to resume your Android Emulator   session in under 6 seconds      Android CTS Compatibility      Performance Improvements - With the latest versions of the Android   Emulator  we now allocate RAM on demand  instead of allocating and   pinning the memory to the max RAM size defined in your AVD       Virtual sensors       Wi-Fi support      GPS location and Many more      OR   Update this SDK Build-Tools and Android Emulator to latest and this alert message will not come again       Settings --  Android SDK --  SDK Tools tab  --  Android SDK   Build-Tools

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2020   the error   Google Play services out of date  Requires 12451000 but found 11743470   just update Google Play services from the Google Play after you sing-in with a valid account    PS  I ve tried different Emulator versions  but all required to update google play services

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I know it s late answer but I had same problem for last two days  and none of the above solutions worked for me  My app supports min sdk 16  Jelly Bean 4 1 x  so I wanted to test my app on emulator with 16 android api version and I needed Google Play Services      In short  solution that worked for me is          make new emulator Nexus 5X  with Play Store support  - Jelly Bean 4 1 x  16 API level  WITHOUT Google APIs    manually download apks of Google Play Store and Google Play Services  it is necessary that both apks have similar version  they   need to start with same number  for example 17 x    drag and drop those apks into new emulator   congratulations you have updated Google Play Services on your 4 1 x emulator      Here are the steps and errors I have encountered during the problem    So I have made new emulator in my AVD  I picked Nexus 5X  with Play Store support   After that I picked Jelly Bean 16 api level  with Google APIs   When I opened my app dialog pop up with message You need to update your Google play services  When I clicked on Update button  nothing happened  I did update everything necessary in SDK manager  but nothing worked  I didn t have installed Google Play Store on my emulator  even tho I picked Nexus 5X which comes with preinstalled Play Store  So I couldn t find Google Play Store tab in Extended Controls  tree dots next to my emulator    Because nothings worked  I decided to try to install Google Play Services manually  by downloading APK and dragging it into emulator  When I tried this  I encountered problem The APK failed to install  Error  INSTALL PARSE FAILED INCONSISTENT CERTIFICATES  I figured that this was the problem because I picked Jelly Bean 16 api level  with Google APIs   So I made new emulator     Nexus 5X  with Play Store support  - Jelly Bean 16 api level  WITHOUT   Google APIs    This allowed me to install my Google Play Service manually  But when I run my app  it still didn t want to open it  Problem was that my emulator was missing Google Play Store  So I installed it manually like Google Play Service  But when it was successfully installed  dialog started popping out every second with message Unfortunately Google Play Services has stopped  Problem was that version of my Google Play Store was 17 x and Google Play Service was 19 x  So at the end I installed Google Play Service with version 17 x  and everything worked

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I faced the same issue  I updated my Android studio and used API 25 target as Android 7 1 1  and X86  and everything worked fine  I use Google play services and firebase for my project

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I was having the same issue  Just avoid using an emulator with SDK 27  SDK 26 works fine

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You need install Google play image   Android SDK -  SDK platforms --  check show Package details --  install Google play

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Based from Google documentation      If you want to test your app on the emulator  expand the directory for Android 4 2 2  API 17  or a higher version  select Google APIs  and install it  Then create a new AVD with Google APIs as the platform target    Try to navigate to settings--  apps in your emulator and then find Google Play Services  Check the version number and use it in you build gradle  To update it with the latest version  you can see it in these documentation and SO question

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the answers on this page eluded me until i found the show package details option

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Update your google play services or just create the new emulator  When you install the new emulator this problem will automatically be solved  Happy coding

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