I have an andengine game project where I am using Google leaderboard. Previously I was using Eclipse and older version Google-play-services. Now I have migrated to Android studio and using the latest version of play-services. But whenever i run the app on different different devices these are the results I get...
Case 1) If the device doesn't have the game-play-services app
App won't run unless you have play-services installed (get play-services option)
Case 2) If the device have older version of play-services
App won't run unless you update the play-services (update play-services option)
So my app totally become dependent on play-sevices app which I definitely don't like and many of my users hate it. Is there a way to basically integrate Google leaderboard without having these strings attached?
Thanks.
No. Google Play Services allows your app to connect to given Google APIs (incl. leaderboard). Officially, there's no other access on Android than thru Google Play Services.