How can I use google play services in a maven project?

Question

Somebody can give me a step by step tutorial about how can I use google play services in a maven project? I\'ve added two dependencies

Answer 1

After importing the google-play-services_lib project into your Eclipse workspace and making it a library you need to setup the maven build process.

Make a zip file of the "google-play-services_lib" folder and call it "google-play-services_lib.apklib"

  + google-play-services_lib.apklib
     + src
     + res
     + AndroidManifest.xml
     + project.properties

Open the command prompt and go to the folder where the zip file is and type the following command. This will install the apklib into you local maven repository.

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=google-play-services_lib.apklib -DgroupId=com.google.android.gms -DartifactId=google-play-services -Dversion=14.0.0 -Dpackaging=apklib

Now you need to install the google-play-services jar into your local repository.

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=google-play-services.jar -DgroupId=com.google.android.gms -DartifactId=google-play-services -Dversion=14.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar

Go back into Eclipse and open your android pom file and enter the following dependency

  com.google.android.gms
  google-play-services
  14.0.0
  apklib
    


  com.google.android.gms
  google-play-services
  14.0.0

Now you can run your maven package command to have output update with the google play jar and the apklib merged into your apk file.

mvn package -Pandroid -Psign