How to update Google Play Services for Android Studio 2.2 emulators?

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There are a number of variations of this question, however most are very old, and don\'t really answer the question at all. I\'m NOT asking how to install Play Services, th

Answer 1

This packages will only work for Android 4.2.2 and higher in these answer i am taking an example of (API 17).and it will do work .

Let’s begin by launching the SDK manager. We will first need to ensure that Android 4.2.2 (API 17) and higher is installed.

[shubham@localhost tools]$ ./android sdk

If not, check the top level element, “Android 4.2.2 (API 17)”, click “Install 6 Packages”, and accept the license agreement.

Setting up the image

To get the right image for your virtual device manager:

• Open the Android SDK Manager
• Open the group Android 4.2.2 (API 17)
• Check Google APIs

• Check ARM EABI v7a System Image

  [![Google Android sdk required tool][1]][1]

Once installed, close the SDK manager and launch the AVD manager. Here we’ll need to create a new AVD which utilizes the Android 4.2.2 platform and has snapshots enabled so that any changes we make are persistent.

[shubham@localhost tools]$ ./android avd

Next we need to pull down the appropriate Google Apps package. Using Android 4.2.2 (API 17) and higher we must use the appropriate package according to below link.

[https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=5649][2]

Once downloaded, extract the archive. In order to install Google Play, we’ll need to push the following 3 APKs to our AVD (located in ./system/app/):

• GoogleServicesFramework.apk
• GoogleLoginService.apk
• Phonesky.apk

However, before we do, we need to make some minor modifications to our AVD. Let’s launch the newly created AVD using the following command. Note that we’ve specified a partition size of 512MB. This is to ensure that our AVD has enough capacity to install the Google Play Store and its dependencies.

[shubham@localhost tools]$ ./emulator -avd Test -partition-size 512 -no-boot-anim

This may take several minutes the first time as the AVD is created. Once started we need to remount the AVD’s partition and modify the permissions of “/system/app/” as this is where our packages will be installed to.

[shubham@localhost platform-tools]$ ./adb remount
[shubham@localhost platform-tools]$ ./adb shell chmod 777 /system/app

And finally, we can push these APKs to our AVD:

[shubham@localhost platform-tools]$ ./adb push ~/system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk /system/app/
[shubham@localhost platform-tools]$ ./adb push ~/system/app/GoogleLoginService.apk /system/app/
[shubham@localhost platform-tools]$ ./adb push ~/system/app/Phonesky.apk /system/app/

Now if your emulator is as slow as mine it may take a few minutes for the package to be installed. You’ll know if the installation hasn’t yet completed if the launcher process repeatedly crashes on you ;)

After a few minutes, we should see the Google Play package appear within the menu launcher. After associating a Google account with this AVD we now have a fully working version of Google Play running under your emulator.

Please refer to this link :[http://www.flinkd.org/2013/12/installing-google-play-on-the-android-emulator-api-18/][3]

That should do the work. For more information and tutorial you can watch these video tutorial :-[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq5mng20PC8][4]

      [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Xn2cX.png
      [2]: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=5649
      [3]: http://www.flinkd.org/2013/12/installing-google-play-on-the-android-emulator-api-18/
      [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq5mng20PC8