AbstractGoogleClientRequest and GoogleClientRequestInitializer class not found in com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:2.0.0

Question

My Android app with Cloud Endpoints says these classes do not exist

import com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.GoogleClientRequestInitializer;

when using any version higher than 1.31.0 of the following import

implementation 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.31.0'

The latest version is 2.0.0 but even 1.32.1 has the issue. Anything that is 1.31.0 or lower works.

This is what my code looks like (taken from this link):

    if (myApiService == null) {  // Only do this once
        MyApi.Builder builder = new MyApi.Builder(AndroidHttp.newCompatibleTransport(),
                new AndroidJsonFactory(), null)
                .setRootUrl("http://YOUR-PROJECT-ID.appspot.com/_ah/api/")
                .setGoogleClientRequestInitializer(new GoogleClientRequestInitializer() {
                    @Override
                    public void initialize(AbstractGoogleClientRequest<?> abstractGoogleClientRequest) throws IOException {
                        abstractGoogleClientRequest.setDisableGZipContent(true);
                    }
                });
        // end options for devappserver
        myApiService = builder.build();
    }

    try {
        return myApiService.sayHi(params[0]).execute().getData();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return e.getMessage();
    }

Is there a different way to be doing this in the new versions or is something else going on?

Answer 1

According to the documentation you shared and the code example you are following, it seems to be definitely an issue of the API version.

I highly recommend you to raise a new issue in this GitHub repository.

As soon as you receive a response in the repository, I would advise you to keep working with a lower version for the time being.