Use play service resolver instead of bundling the android libs

[facebook]

Use play service resolver instead of bundling the android libs

[Allough]

This is becoming an almost must have now. I'm about to drop Facebook entirely due to how much extra work it is to mess with all this crap. (Just wasted about an hour trying to get a clients game to build again, after importing Facebook).

+1!

[Khaled-Almoukhtar]

+1

[rchallenger]

For now I could find necessary libraries adding next lines to my default dependencies. It solved versions conflict, but didn't help to run app normally. It always crashes.

	//general dependency
	Google.VersionHandler.InvokeInstanceMethod (
		svcSupport, "DependOn",
		new object [] {
			"com.android.support",
			"support-v4",
			"LATEST"
		},
		namedArgs: new Dictionary<string, object> ( ) {
				{
					"packageIds",
					new string[] { "extra-android-m2repository" }
				}
			}
		);

	//facebook dependency
	Google.VersionHandler.InvokeInstanceMethod (
		svcSupport, "DependOn",
		new object [] {
			"com.android.support",
			"cardview-v7",
			"LATEST"
		},
		namedArgs: new Dictionary<string, object> ( ) {
				{
					"packageIds",
					new string[] { "extra-android-m2repository" }
				}
			}
		);

[bdominguez]

Recently Unity has added Gradle build system and Gradle templates:

{UNITY_PATH}\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\Tools\GradleTemplates

Combined with this that Unity is considering it we will have a much better workflow:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/dealing-with-new-style-aars-that-have-applicationid-in-their-androidmanifest-xml.380596/#post-2976463

Please write on that thread to push Unity working on this faster.