Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide

Setting up the code

The first thing we need to do is to add the Google Play Services library to our project. This should already have been done by the wizard when we created the project, but I recommend you to double-check it now.

The library needs to be added to the build.gradle file of the main module. Note that Android Studio projects contain a top-level build.gradle and a module-level build.gradle for each module. We will modify the one that is under the mobile module.

Make sure that the play services' library is listed under dependencies:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'


dependencies {
  compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1'
  compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.3.0'
}

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