Reliable source for older versions of Google Play APIs
I am working on an application that uses the Google Play Services GcmNetworkManager. This is a feature , so to maximize the number of devices where my app does not need to prompt the user to update the Google Play Service, I would like to build my app against this version of the API files.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to select an older version in the Android SDK Manager. There are several websites on Google search that provide older versions of the API, but none of them seem to be official Google pages, so I am a little hesitant to use them for security reasons.
I would also prefer not to use the trick suggested in the answer to a similar question here ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/2229969/ ), since I have no idea if there are parts of the API that would crash if tricked into doing against an untested old APK.
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I think I should have looked a little longer ... Here is the answer I was looking for:
fooobar.com/questions/76673 / ...
More specific:
API v7.5.71 files are available at
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Is it really safe?
Well, that's exactly what you have artifact versioning. Presumably Google intends to keep these old artifacts in your local Google repository.
If you're seriously nervous, back up your development machine. (and if you're not seriously nervous, also back up your development machine). You can always rummage around an old backup to grab artifacts and prepare some ways to use them in your application.
those. is this loading / building a real old version of the API?
It compiles into your application the JARs / AARs that represent the Play Services SDK for this release. This all works with the artifact version. If you go into the Android SDK installation and look extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/
, you will see different artifact names. Go to these directories and you will see the versions. Go to the version directory and you will see the files. Go to files and you will see bits. You can try diving into a bit to see electrons or something, but I think it will be too small.
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