This tutorial assumes

1. You have basic knowledge of getting up and running with Android.
2. You have the Android SDK installed on your machine & configured with your IDE.

If not, the Android Developers Site is a great place to get started. Here you can get a very good idea of Google Play Services and how it works. 

In this tutorial, we’ll see the basics of how to connect an Android app with Google Play Services. This tutorial is put together using several online sources that I referred to when learning Android, including the ever-useful Android Developers Site. (more…)