| **Note:** This guide is for the Play Games Services v2 SDK. For information on the previous version of this SDK, see the[Play Games Services v1 documentation](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/v1/android).

This guide describes how to set up an Android Studio project to use the Play Games Services SDK. You must complete these steps before you set up Play Games Services[sign-in](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/android/android-signin)and add Play Games Services features to your game.

## Before you begin

To prepare your app, complete the steps in the following sections.

### App prerequisites

Make sure that your app's build file uses the following values:

- A`minSdkVersion`of`19`of higher
- A`compileSdkVersion`of`28`or higher

### Set up your game in Google Play Console

The Google Play Console is where you manage Google Play games services for your game, and configure metadata for authorizing and authenticating your game. For more information, see[Set Up Google Play Games Services](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/console/setup).

## Configure your app

In your project-level`build.gradle`file, include[Google's Maven repository](https://maven.google.com/web/index.html)and[Maven central repository](https://search.maven.org/artifact)in both your`buildscript`and`allprojects`sections:  

      buildscript {
        repositories {
          google()
          mavenCentral()
        }
      }

      allprojects {
        repositories {
          google()
          mavenCentral()
        }
      }

Add the[Google Play services](https://developers.google.com/android)dependency for the Play Games SDK to your[module's Gradle build file](https://developer.android.com/studio/build#module-level), which is commonly

`app/build.gradle`:  

      dependencies {
        implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-games-v2:+"
      }

After completing these steps you must set up[sign-in](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/android/android-signin)in order for the game to access Play Games Services features.