Google play services raising the version of support-v4 (to 24.0.0)

Question

In my project I'm compiling against sdk-version 23 and using the compat/support libraries version 23.2.0.

Now I'm trying to update the play-services-version from 9.2.1 to 10.2.0

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:10.2.0'

But making this change ads the com.android.support:support-v4:24.0.0 library to my project making my project to crash due with strange not found errors in the compat libraries like explained in this question.

How can I avoid that? should I skip the play-services update? can I avoid them to raise the version of the support-v4 lib?

why not just up your project to 24? You should always be compiling aginst the latest sdk — tyczj, Mar 08 '17 at 18:40
Can't update my project due to a bad behaviour of another library when targeting version 24+ — Addev, Mar 08 '17 at 18:41

David · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08T19:14:19.593

Maybe it could work with something like this:

compile('com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:10.2.0') {
            exclude group: 'com.android.support'
}

or if this does not work then maybe:

compile('com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:10.2.0') {
                exclude group: 'com.android.support',  module: 'support-v4'
    }

Or maybe you don't need the whole base play services and only specific packages as defined here

Google play services raising the version of support-v4 (to 24.0.0)

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