Android: Google play services not working on the emulator

问题

I had to format my Windows laptop so I copied the SDK folder (because it's about 30 GB large) and i pasted it in the same place on the new Windows copy.

Now when I start Android Studio and SDK Manager everything looks fine and all tools & packages appear as downloaded, but when I start an emulator to test my app, it says Get Google Play Services which I already have in my gradle as follows:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.0.0'

It was working fine on the old Windows machine but now it refuses to detect Google Play Services.

Also the emulator is very slow, it used to be very fast on the old Windows machine.

What am i missing here ?

Thanks in advance.

回答1:

The Google Play Services app is missing on the emulator. The library is required only to compile projects against the Google Play Services APIs'.

As per the reference documentation at Setting Up Google Play Services:

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.

So what you need to do is use the Google APIs as the target SDK setting.