Android Studio - Library reference ../google-play-services_lib could not be found importing project

Question

I am trying to import from Eclipse to AndroidStudio a project of mine and I am getting the following error

Answer 1

An alternative is to simply set the path. You'll need to have installed play services via the Android SDK to use it with Android studio anyway.

Once play services are installed, if you highlight the Google play services entry in the Android SDK manager it will show you the path to the install location. On MAC this is normally something like /Users/[homedir]/android-sdks/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject

Edit the path in project.properties to point to this file and it will import. You can then update your gradle build file as necessary.