Notify the user to update Google Play Service

Question

I would like your help on something, I'm developing an app using firebase, so it works and needs google play services relatively up-to-date. In my tests, in outdated versions the crash app. I some applications when it is necessary a certain version of google play service appears a notification requesting the user to update google play service, this is my doubt, how do I make this message appear?

Answer 1

You can do it as follows:

final GoogleApiAvailability googleApiAvailability = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
final int status = googleApiAvailability .isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
if (status != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) { 
    //Status that you are interested is SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED
    final Dialog dialog = googleApiAvailability.getErrorDialog(this,status, 1);
    dialog.show();
}

Note:

GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context) has been deprecated.

Answer 2

You have 2 options to do that. Look at below code

private boolean checkPlayServices() {
        GoogleApiAvailability apiAvailability = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
        int resultCode = apiAvailability.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
        if (resultCode != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {

            // Handle 1

            // Show own dialog for status
            if (resultCode == ConnectionResult.SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED) {
                // This is the case, where update required for google play service
            } else {
                // This would be case like, play services not available on device and needs to install
            }

            // Handle 2

            // Or you can depend on library classes to handle these eror and show appropriate error message with action in dialog.
            if (apiAvailability.isUserResolvableError(resultCode)) {
                apiAvailability.getErrorDialog(this, resultCode, PLAY_SERVICES_RESOLUTION_REQUEST)
                        .show();
            } else {
                // Unrecoverable error.
            }
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

In above code // Handle 1 and // Handle 2 are two ways of doing that. In most of the cases // Handle 2 is better option. For more error handling in you want (not related to this question), you should read How to check Google Play services version?

Answer 3

private boolean checkGooglePlayServices() {
    final int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
    if (status != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        Log.e(TAG, GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorString(status));

        // need to update google play services.
        Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, 1);
        dialog.show();
        return false;
    } else {
        Log.i(TAG, GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorString(status));
        // google play services is updated. 
        return true;
    }
}

try with this.

Answer 4

You can check version using below code of GoogleApiAvailability

GoogleApiAvailability.GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION_CODE

First you need to check, if Google play service available or not using below API.

public int isGooglePlayServicesAvailable (Context context)

OR

You can directly check using below API.

public int isGooglePlayServicesAvailable (Context context, int minApkVersion)

Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled on this device, and that the version installed on this device is no older than the one required by this client or specified in minApkVersion.

Answer 5

//Check for play service availablity
int available=GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance().isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
if(available!= ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
     if(available== ConnectionResult.SERVICE_VERSION_UPDATE_REQUIRED){
        Toast.makeText(this,"please update your google play service",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
     }
     else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "please download the google play service", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
     }
}