What is the right context to pass to the isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(Context context) method?
You can pass anyone context like:
Activity context (By passing this) ,
Application context (by getting through getApplicationContext()),
Base context (By getting through getBaseContext()) etc.
actually isGooglePlayServicesAvailable() attached to whole application not an single activity that's why you can use anyone context object.
Hope this information will help you.
I just use the Activity context where users land when they start up my app, and that's worked (we've had it show up in testing here).
My code in that Activity is this:
private void checkPlayServices() {
int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
if (status != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(status)) {
GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, 0).show();
} else {
ToastHelper.showCenteredToast("Until you update your Google Play Services, this app cannot run on this phone");
finish();
}
}
You can see on the first line of the function that I'm passing this into the check, and that just maps to an Activity.
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until Android API28 when requesting Media Projection Services android allowed the user to grant access just once by selecting "Don't show again" check-box. So that everytime app wants to use media projection services the access was already granted.
In the android AP29 the dialog changed and this option does not exist anymore.
What can be done in order to the user just grant the access once to the app to use media projection? Thank you.
Well the problem was that I was calling
startActivityForResult(mProjectionManager.createScreenCaptureIntent(), REQUEST_CODE);
every time, which is not necessary (createScreenCaptureIntent() leads to the dialog window which requests user interaction) My solution makes the dialog appear only once (if application was closed it will ask for permission one time again). All I had to do was making addiotional private static variables of type Intent and int.
private static Intent staticIntentData;
private static int staticResultCode;
On Activity result I assign those variables with the passed result code and intent:
if(staticResultCode == 0 && staticIntentData == null) {
sMediaProjection = mProjectionManager.getMediaProjection(resultCode, data);
staticIntentData = data;
staticResultCode = resultCode;
} else {
sMediaProjection = mProjectionManager.getMediaProjection(staticResultCode, staticIntentData)};
}
Every time I call my startprojection method, I will check if they are null:
if(staticIntentData == null)
startActivityForResult(mProjectionManager.createScreenCaptureIntent(), REQUEST_CODE);
else
captureScreen();
If null it will request permission, if not it will start the projection with the static intent data and static int resultcode, so it is not needed to ask for that permission again, just reuse what you get in activity result.
sMediaProjection = mProjectionManager.getMediaProjection(staticResultCode, staticIntentData);
Simple as that! Now it will only showing one single time each time you use the app. I guess thats what Google wants, because there no keep decision checkbox in that dialog like in previous android versions
I'm using this code to check if Play Services are availble
public static boolean checkPlayServices(Context context, boolean showDialog) {
int resultCode = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
if (resultCode != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
if (showDialog) {
if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(resultCode)) {
Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(resultCode, (BaseActivity) context, GooglePlayServicesUtil.GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION_CODE);
dialog.show();
} else {
Log.d("FUApp", "This device is not supported.");
//finish();
}
}
return false;
}
return true;
}
Is it possible to change the Dialog text without having to create a new dialog?
The reason being I only want to show the error if they are trying to use a feature which requires Play Services, and the current text says This app wont work..., whereas I want it to say This feature wont work...
Step 1:
import google-play-services_lib to your workspace
( you can find it on following path: <android-sdk>/extras/google/google_play_services/)
Step 2:
go to its values directory -> strings.xml
and change the text messages which you want to change.
Step 3:
Now come back to your own application, add google-play-services_lib as library project to your application.
You're done !!
EDIT :
Instead of making changes in library's strings.xml, you can override desired string value in your application's strings.xml
i.e.:
<string name="common_google_play_services_enable_text" msgid="227660514972886228">This feature won\'t work unless you enable Google Play services.</string>
Signing out or disconnecting the GamesClient is straightforward when it is from your own UI, such as a button on the main menu.
However, users can also sign out from the game from the Google Play UI in the acheivements and leaderboard views displayed by the intents such as getAllLeaderboardsIntent(). (It's a bit hidden, but if you tap the menu in the upper right, it lets you sign out.)
There are a few promising listener interfaces like OnSignOutCompleteListener but they don't seem to work with a sign out via the google UI, only from your own UI calling GamesClient.signOut().
How can I detect that the user has signed out from the leaderboards or achievement intents? Is it possible to have a callback for this?
I want to be able to update my in-game UI to reflect the logged-in status.
Unfortunately GameHelper doesn't detect when you logout from Google play games.
What you need to do is to put this in your onActivityResult() method in your activity.
I encounter a crash error when I tried using aHelper.signOut() when res == RESULT_RECONNECT_REQUIRED is true.
Instead I created a resetAllValues() method which resets back all values to its default in GameHelper.
In my MainActivity.java
protected void onActivityResult(int req, int res, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(req, res, data);
if (res == GamesActivityResultCodes.RESULT_RECONNECT_REQUIRED) {
aHelper.resetAllValues();
} else {
aHelper.onActivityResult(req, res, data);
}
}
My method in GameHelper.java
public void resetAllValues()
{
mProgressDialog = null;
mAutoSignIn = true;
mUserInitiatedSignIn = false;
mConnectionResult = null;
mSignInError = false;
mExpectingActivityResult = false;
mSignedIn = false;
mDebugLog = false;
}
Duplicate from:
How can i check if user sign's out from games services default view?
As I see it, there is no elegant solution to that. You can check the response_code in onActivityResult for INCONSISTENT_STATE and cut off the GamesClient, but I'm not sure, if you can potetially get to an inconsistent state in any other manner...
I am trying to handle use cases where the user doesn't have Play set up correctly. It seems extremely straight forward, but I can't get the dialog to do anything. I have the following code in onCreate for a FragmentActivity that uses Maps v2. I have ensured that execution does go inside the if statements.
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_map);
this.helper = (DatabaseHelper) OpenHelperManager.getHelper(this, DatabaseHelper.class);
int googlePlayStatus = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
if(googlePlayStatus != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
if(GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(googlePlayStatus)) {
GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(googlePlayStatus, this, googlePlayStatus).show();
}
}
//... do some stuff, such as use CameraUpdateFactory which throws NPE.
}
I have tried inserting the code into another activity, without the if checks, and the dialog shows just fine.
If a i am getting it right, you are trying to get the dialog error to be shown. Try this:
Edited:
Ok, i was having the same problem as you some time ago, so this is the exact code i use on one of my projects. I call the 'getActivity' on 'isGooglePlayServicesAvailable' instead of passing this.
int checkGooglePlayServices = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(getActivity());
if (checkGooglePlayServices != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(checkGooglePlayServices, getActivity(), DIALOG_GET_GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES);
dialog.show();
}
I'm trying to use the APK Expansion extension from Google to download expansion files I have hosted with them. I'm also using the code from the SampleDownloadActivity to do this, albeit slightly modified to fit in my app.
My problem is that the download is never initiated. In my class that implements IDownloadClient, onStart() is called, but onServiceConnected() is not.
I have traced this down to this line in DownloaderClientMarshaller:
if( c.bindService(bindIntent, mConnection, Context.BIND_DEBUG_UNBIND) ) {
This always returns false, and therefore the service is not bound.
I'm using the calling activity within a TabHost, which has caused problems for other people. They were saying that you must not pass the TabHost context, rather that the Application context to the connect function. I've changed this by doing:
mDownloaderClientStub.connect(getApplicationContext());
instead of:
mDownloaderClientStub.connect(this);
but it doesn't help, I still get false. I'm doing all my testing on the Emulator if that makes a difference.
I'm really pulling my hair out on this one. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be extremely grateful!
In most cases, bindService() method returns false if the service was not declared in the application's Manifest file.
In my case, the problem was that I had given the wrong class object to the DownloaderClientMarshaller.CreateStub() method. I accidentally used DownloaderService.class instead of MyDownloaderService.class.
When using the downloader API, make sure to pass the correct class object that extends the base DownloaderService.
I recommend using the updated Downloader Library included in Better APK Expansion package. It has this and other issues fixed and also provides simplified API that minimizes chances to shoot yourself in the foot.
To receive the download progress, you will just have to extend the BroadcastDownloaderClient.
public class SampleDownloaderActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private final DownloaderClient mClient = new DownloaderClient(this);
// ...
#Override
protected void onStart() {
super.onStart();
mClient.register(this);
}
#Override
protected void onStop() {
mClient.unregister(this);
super.onStop();
}
// ...
class DownloaderClient extends BroadcastDownloaderClient {
#Override
public void onDownloadStateChanged(int newState) {
if (newState == STATE_COMPLETED) {
// downloaded successfully...
} else if (newState >= 15) {
// failed
int message = Helpers.getDownloaderStringResourceIDFromState(newState);
Toast.makeText(this, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
#Override
public void onDownloadProgress(DownloadProgressInfo progress) {
if (progress.mOverallTotal > 0) {
// receive the download progress
// you can then display the progress in your activity
String progress = Helpers.getDownloadProgressPercent(
progress.mOverallProgress, progress.mOverallTotal);
Log.i("SampleDownloaderActivity", "downloading progress: " + progress);
}
}
}
}
Check the full documentation on the library's page.