download google play services sdk for android studio

The older versions are in the same location on the google servers (although they could disappear at any time), so if you are prepared to move the current installed library aside and manually unpack an older zip then you can install an old version.

So researching further, I unpacked the xml that Android SDK Manager uses to find and install the 'extras' packages including the latest version of Google Play Services.įor the current version (as of Nov 10th 2014) that gives you the library for google-play-services_lib at: I know that you can add code to prompt the user to upgrade to the latest version (see the comment by but, for complicated reasons, in my case I need to work with whatever version the user already has installed on their device (if any) and hence prefer to compile/build with an older version of the client library (google-play-services_lib) I realise that this is an old question, but I had the same problem today (for real devices not for the emulator) and have found a solution.

Download google play services sdk for android studio