How to check the whether the android device has google play services running on 10.2 or greater

Question

As per the documentation on official page of google the SMSRetriever api needs google play services min 10.2 on device.

Prerequisites

The SMS Retriever API is available only on Android devices with Play services version 10.2 and newer. https://developers.google.com/identity/sms-retriever/request#2_start_the_sms_retriever

How to implement the check for that ? I have also checked the method

public int isGooglePlayServicesAvailable (Context context, int minApkVersion)

of GoogleApiAvailability class. But now again what will be value of minApkVersion in case of google play services 10.2. Any one please let me know how to implement this in a best way.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '18 at 14:39

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SmsRetrieverClient follows the newer GoogleApi connection pattern so you shouldn't have to worry about the version compatibility as the underlying framework handles all the resolution for you.

It may actually be better UX to specifically handle the failure case as well by adding listeners to these Task-returning API calls (https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/tasks/Task) instead of checking for availability beforehand.

answered Jun 21 '18 at 14:39

zfromg

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It seems that this is incorrect. My galaxy S2 (google play service version 3.1.59) doesn't respond to neither addOnSuccessListener nor addOnFailureListener. – Stanley Ko Jan 21 '19 at 11:24

Pankaj Sharma · Answer 2 · 2019-02-23T14:15:41.430

Just a work around to get the version comparision done.

 public boolean onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            if (googlePlayServiceEnabled() && isWithSMSRetrieverSupportedPlayServiceVersion()){
                //Good to go
                return true;
            }
            else{
                return false;
            }
    }

Checks if GooglePlay Service is Enabled and Displays proper error dialog on errors.

private boolean googlePlayServiceEnabled() {
        try {
            GoogleApiAvailability instance = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
            int responseCode = instance.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
            switch (responseCode) {
                case ConnectionResult.SUCCESS:
                    return true;
                default:
                    Dialog errorDialog = instance.getErrorDialog(this, responseCode, 123);
                    errorDialog.setCancelable(false);
                    errorDialog.show();
                    break;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
}

Implicitly gets the installed play services version and compares it with 10.2

private boolean isWithSMSRetrieverSupportedPlayServiceVersion() {
        try {
            PackageInfo pi = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(GoogleApiAvailability.GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_PACKAGE, 0);
            if (pi == null)
                return false;
            if (pi.versionName == null || pi.versionName.isEmpty())
                return false;

            String playServicesVersion = pi.versionName;
            return isPlayServicesVersionValidForSMSRetriever(playServicesVersion);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }

public static boolean isPlayServicesVersionValidForSMSRetriever(String v) {
        try {
            String index1 = v.substring(0, v.indexOf('.', 0));

            int versionInt1 = Integer.parseInt(index1);
            if (versionInt1 < 10)
                return false;
            else if (versionInt1 == 10) {
                String index2 = v.substring(3, 4);
                int versionInt2 = Integer.parseInt(index2);
                if (versionInt2 < 2) {
                    return false;
                } else {
                    return true;
                }
            } else
                return true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 11:44

I know this is an old question, and already answered. But I need to write this for the record.

Situation:

In my case, galaxy S2 (google play service version 3.1.59), I couldn' get response from neither addOnSuccessListener nor addOnFailureListener. Also, addOnCompleteListener or addOnCanceledListener was not called.

What I tried:

I want use isGooglePlayServicesAvailable with minApkVersion, but there was no version history list of google play service!

My solution is

Use isGooglePlayServicesAvailable without minApkVersion. I mean the deprecated method. In that method, it is checking google play version with GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION_CODE, and this is the google play service of installed one.

@HideFirstParty
@KeepForSdk
public int isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(Context var1) {
    return this.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(var1, GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION_CODE);
}

How to check the whether the android device has google play services running on 10.2 or greater

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