Resolving problems reported with the GoogleApiClient OnConnectionFailedListener

With the constantly changing nature of Google APIs, your users are likely to attempt to use your application, but not be able to because their files are out of date. We can use the GoogleApiAvailability library to display a dialog to help the user resolve the problem.

We'll continue with the previous recipe and add code to the onConnectionFailed() callback. We'll use the error result to display additional information to the user to resolve their problem.

Getting ready

Create a new project in Android Studio and call it HandleGoogleAPIError. Use the default Phone & Tablet options, and select Empty Activity when prompted for Activity Type. Once you've created the project, add the Google Play library reference to the project dependencies. (See the previous recipe steps.)

How to do it...

The first step for this recipe is to add the Google Play Services library to the project. From there, we'll create the classes to...