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Alexey Starinsky
Alexey Starinsky

Reputation: 4305

Cannot find symbol GoogleApiAvailability

I switched from Google Play Services 11.0.4 to 18.1.1 and got the compiler error in the following code:

public boolean isGooglePlayServicesAvailable()
{
    com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability googleApiAvailability = com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
    int resultCode = googleApiAvailability.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
    return resultCode == com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult.SUCCESS;
}

The error message is:

MainActivity.java:246: error: cannot find symbol
        com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability googleApiAvailability = com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
                                                                                                                 ^
  symbol:   class GoogleApiAvailability
  location: package com.google.android.gms.common

Is GoogleApiAvailability available in Google Play Services 18.1.1?

In build.gradle I have this:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar', '*.aar'])
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.1.1'
}

EDIT1:

There is com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailabilityLight at least.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5220

Answers (3)

Gk Mohammad Emon
Gk Mohammad Emon

Reputation: 6936

Just add this dependency in your build.gradle(:app) -

`implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0"`

Upvotes: 2

Dan Savelyev
Dan Savelyev

Reputation: 121

I faced the same issue. After upgrading some Google Mobile Services (GMS) libraries GoogleApiAvailability class disappeared.

Looks like Google had been loosening its dependency on GMS recently. I failed to find some useful information across the web, so I decided to look through source code of GoogleApiAvailability and try to figure out the difference between GoogleApiAvailability & GoogleApiAvailabilityLight.

It seems to me that main difference is as follows: GoogleApiAvailabilityLight helps to check, yes, availability of GMS services on device, but GoogleApiAvailability also helps restore GMS functionality, if broken or outdated. This restoration techniques seem to be aware of GMS & need them. So Google separated 2 classes: one for checking (GMS independent), other - for checking + restoration (GMS dependent).

As my only need was to check GMS's availability - I replaced GoogleApiAvailability with GoogleApiAvailabilityLight and thats it.

Hope this helps someone who will face the same issue.

Upvotes: 10

Alexey Starinsky
Alexey Starinsky

Reputation: 4305

Looks like it is now com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailabilityLight. At least I was able to compile it.

Upvotes: 9

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