The recently released version of Google Play Services presents itself as a library
project with string and attribute resources coupled with a .jar
in the libs/
folder
that has been compiled against internal APIs.
While this is convenient for users of IDEs or Ant, it presents a problem for those using
proper build systems (e.g., Maven, Gradle) with dependency management. Inside the .jar
there are a lot of classes
which reference static attributes on the com.google.android.gsm.R
class. This means that