Cordova Plugin Google Play Services Checker

Cordova/Ionic/Phonegap plugin for checking that the Google Play Services are installed, updated and enabled on Android device.

Why

Users' Google Play Services should be updated if you want to have more accurate and fast GPS. There is a native way to check and update it. No need to ask user to do it manual, just install this plugin.

Installation

The plugin can be installed via Cordova-CLI and is publicly available on NPM.

Execute from the project root folder:

$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-google-play-services-checker

Or with Ionic

$ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-google-play-services-checker

Usage

The plugin creates the object GooglePlayServicesChecker, and it's accessible after deviceready has been fired.

document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
  var success = function(installedAndUpdated) {
    if (installedAndUpdated.status) {
      console.log('Google Play Services is installed and updated');        
    } else {
      console.log('Showing user native update window');
    }
  } 
  var failure = function(reason) {
    console.error('error: ' + reason)
  }
  GooglePlayServicesChecker.check(success, failure);
})

Or for Ionic-v4:

import { Platform } from '@ionic/angular';
@Component({...})
export class MyPage {
  constructor(public platform: Platform) {
    platform.ready().then(() => {
      var success = function(installedAndUpdated) {
        if (installedAndUpdated.status) {
          console.log('Google Play Services is installed and updated');        
        } else {
          console.log('Showing user native update window');
        }
      } 
      var failure = function(reason) {
        console.error('error: ' + reason)
      }
      GooglePlayServicesChecker.check(success, failure);
    });
  }
}

Or enhanced example for Ionic-v1:

  var googlePlayCheckedAndInstalled=false;
  function googlePlayCheck() {
    if (window.cordova && !googlePlayCheckedAndInstalled) {
      var success = function (installedAndUpdated) {
        console.log('Google Play Services success: ', installedAndUpdated);
        if (installedAndUpdated.status) {
          console.log('Google Play Services is installed and updated');
          googlePlayCheckedAndInstalled = true;
        } else {
          console.log('Trying to show user native update window');
        }
      }
      var failure = function (reason) {
        console.error('Google Play Services error: ' + reason)
      }
      GooglePlayServicesChecker.check(success, failure);
    }
  }
 
  googlePlayCheck();
  $ionicPlatform.on('resume', function () {
    googlePlayCheck();
  });