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Can someone take some interest in answering important things like how to be able to use google play services in Appery? Of late only the easiest of questions seem to be getting answered.

Being able to use Google play services is so important and there are many things which depend on that.

Can anyone at Appery take some time to enlighten guys like me how to incorporate Google Play services?

I am not trying to do something out of this earth but I need Google Play services available so that I can do things like geo-fencing.

THANKS!

Hello M&M,

Unfortunately, Google Play Services are not included as phonegap plugin in Appery.io project. It is not available as out of the box functionality.

hi Egor,

If it were available out of the box I would not be asking for help on this. I had even provided couple of links so that some guidance can be provided on how to add Google Play Services.

This level of support is really bad. It has been weeks and no one has given me a single straightforward answer on how to add / use google play services in my app.

The play services is also needed for advertisement and to use admob.

I can "predict" the next answer from the support - "you should find a admob / google play services plugin and use it" which again leads me to asking the same question - HOW DO I DO THAT BECAUSE IT IS NOT LIKE ADDING TOAST OR BEEP OR LOCAL NOTIFICATION PLUGIN

Hi -

You have asked this question several times on forum and we have explained that unfortunately Cordova/PhoneGap 3rd party plugins lies outside the scope of our support.
:: https://devcenter.appery.io/support-p...

If you're looking for admob plugin, why not try the solution described here -- http://a70785.wix.com/parkermobileapp...

I have asked this several times because NOT ONCE did I get a satisfactory answer from the support. I was not asking for help on something that is legacy or proprietary.

All I needed to know was how to make Google Play Services available because moving forward there will be many things that will have Google Play Services (as) dependency - and bring able to advertise/admob is one of them. I have no idea how appery handles inclusion of jar/other dependency file, and so I feel stuck, helpless.

If it were a desktop IDE I would have figured this out myself. With a web based IDE I am at the mercy of the browser! If it doesn't throw an error and the console remains blank I have no Plan B on where to look for logs.

Thanks anyway

And I have a 1 year subscription with Appery. If I decide to or have to export my project to Eclipse to include Google Play Services then I will not be able to import it back to Appery - in which case I might as well cancel my subsciption.

the reason I got agitated was that my app has reached a make-or-break situation because of not being able to use Google Play Services. And this was the last thing that I imagined that I will have difficulty with. If you look at my application you can see that I have been able to add about 20 plugins on my own. So I have tried everything that I could and I cannot proceed further because this is very different from a desktop IDE.

On a desktop IDE I have perfect control on many things...and I can view logs / tracking / profiling etc. Here I am very limited as far as debugging is concerned. Even though I enabled the weinre debugging, I can see console.log messages but I see no errors when a certain plugin does not work.

The whole point in moving to Appery was so that we can move away from Eclipse and can have faster development times. I am not asking for much other than being able to use Google Play Services. Even if there is any other plugin that I can incorporate into my app, so that google play services becomes available, I am fine with that.

thanks

M&M,

We do want to ask your question and help you to create brilliant app, but the main problem is, that your request can be to complex or unclear, cause based on paths you will create, you need to add/change all places where you would use it.

Basically, to make Play Services work, you need to integrate all phonegap plugins one by one, even those which set as dependency.

Note:
Android folder in source tab has basic Java Maven project, so if you could added jar files in Eclipse, then same can be done in Appery.

Ok so I found this Google Play Services cordova plugin.

https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/g...

But this has a jar and properties file so I am not too sure as to which path I should upload these. And do I need to add anything to the classpath (file) to make this work?

M&M

Go to mvnrepository.org site and check if this jar is already uploaded,
if no
1) create repo/xxx/yyy/zzz.jar, repo/xxx/yyy/zzz.pom
where xxx/yyy/zzz - package name of your jar file
2) add dependency to pom.xml

if yes, just add dependency