When does isGooglePlayServicesAvailable return SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED?

Question

According to the documentation GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable returns SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED when \"The installed version of Google Play servi

Answer 1

Here are the docs for GooglePlayServicesUtil: http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/common/GooglePlayServicesUtil.html.

Here is where they talking about "ensuring" the user has it installed: https://developer.android.com/google/play-services/setup.html#ensure

This is taken from the Official Iosched 2014 source code here: https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/0a90bf8e6b90e9226f8c15b34eb7b1e4bf6d632e/android/src/main/java/com/google/samples/apps/iosched/util/PlayServicesUtils.java

public class PlayServicesUtils {

    public static boolean checkGooglePlaySevices(final Activity activity) {
        final int googlePlayServicesCheck = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(activity);
        switch (googlePlayServicesCheck) {
            case ConnectionResult.SUCCESS:
                return true;
            case ConnectionResult.SERVICE_DISABLED:
            case ConnectionResult.SERVICE_INVALID:
            case ConnectionResult.SERVICE_MISSING:
            case ConnectionResult.SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED:
                Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(googlePlayServicesCheck, activity, 0);
                dialog.setOnCancelListener(new DialogInterface.OnCancelListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialogInterface) {
                        activity.finish();
                    }
                });
                dialog.show();
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Here is how to use it in an Activity: https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/cf1f30b4c752f275518384a9b71404ee501fc473/android/src/main/java/com/google/samples/apps/iosched/ui/BaseActivity.java

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

    // Verifies the proper version of Google Play Services exists on the device.
    PlayServicesUtils.checkGooglePlaySevices(this);
}