What is com.google.android.gms.version?

android google-play-services android-gps
Josema picture Josema · May 16, 2017 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

I am working in a old project which has this snippet to use in google play service:

<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
    android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

I couldn't find any official documentation about this, I know however that is used in device location and I would like to know what is used for because I am getting an exception and I think it may be related:

[AppCertManager] IOException while requesting key:                                   
java.io.IOException: Invalid device key response.                                                                              
at evk.a(:com.google.android.gms:274)                                                                              
at evk.a(:com.google.android.gms:4238)                                                                              
at evj.a(:com.google.android.gms:45)                                                                              
at evd.a(:com.google.android.gms:50)                                                                              
at evc.a(:com.google.android.gms:104)                                                                              
at com.google.android.gms.auth.account.be.legacy.AuthCronChimeraService.b(:com.google.android.gms:4049)                                                                              
at ecm.call(:com.google.android.gms:2041)                                                                              
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)                                                                              
at llt.run(:com.google.android.gms:450)                                                                              
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)                                                                              at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)                                                                              at lqc.run(:com.google.android.gms:17)                                                                              at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Cheers!

Answer

airowe picture airowe · May 16, 2017

That is the Google Play Services Version Number.

This may help you with your error, though I'm not sure of the code that's throwing it.

Related questions

Cannot resolve symbol 'LocationRequest' Android project

I'm new on Android programming, I try to use the new Location Service for getting the user position, to do this i follow the official android developer guide but I don't understand why I'm not able to import LocationRequest in …

Read More
How to install Google Play Services in a Genymotion VM (with no drag and drop support)?

How can I install Google Play Services in a Genymotion emulator with no drag and drop support? I can't install it as mentioned in Stack Overflow post How do you install Google frameworks (Play, Accounts, etc.) on a Genymotion virtual …

Read More
How do you install Google frameworks (Play, Accounts, etc.) on a Genymotion virtual device?

I'm currently trying out Genymotion and boy, it's so much faster than the ADT emulator. But I need to install Google Play to download some apps into it. How do I do this?

Read More