Android: Emulator requires Google Play services update

• If you run the emulator and it shows:“…won’t run unless you update Google Play services”

They may be two ( or more 🙂 ) solutions:
–  Check your Emulator’s Google Play services version.
Go to Settings (in the Emulator, like in regular phone) > Apps > Double-click “Google Play services” and check the version.

i.e. here  8.4.89
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So…….

– (1) You can run Google play and from the app-store update your google play

or

(2) Change the Google play service version in your build.grade (module: app)

Open build.grade (module: app), i.e. if the version is 10.2  (higher from the Emulator)

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:10.2.0'

Change it to 8.4.0 (to match the emulator)

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.4.0'

Now Resync, Recompile , and Run

Now it should work! 🙂