Google Play Services is a boon to app development, especially helping developers with Google-packed features such as Maps, Google+, Drive, Game services and Analytics. With automatic platform updates distributed as an APK on the Google Play Store, developers can easily receive the updates and more easily integrate Google features. In this chapter, we will first see how the Google Play Service architecture works, followed by some of the APIs supported in Google Play Services. This will be followed by learning to incorporate Google Sign-in and Maps API. First, let's see what the architecture of Google Play Services looks like:
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