referencing the play-services via gradle stopped working for me – boiled it down – even the sample I used as a reference in the first place stopped working:
https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/4Yhpn6p9icf
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':auth'.
> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':auth:compile'.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services:3.1.36.
Required by:
gpsdemos:auth:unspecified
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 3.577 secs
I fear that just the version increased but that raises 2 questions:
#1) what is the new one?
#2) why is the old version gone?