Android GooglePlayServices context error

Question

I'm trying to make a Google play services check for my android application. I followed a yt guide at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lKeTJpaWc And created the following code:

public boolean servicesOK() {
    int isAvailable = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

    if (isAvailable == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        return true;
    }
    else if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(isAvailable)) {
        Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(isAvailable, this, GPS_ERRORDIALOG_REQUEST);
        dialog.show();
    }
    else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Can't connect to Google Play services", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    return false;
}

The code executed correctly without any problems, so i decided to make it into an class file. Thats when the problems occurred; i get the following error-message:

"The method isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(Context) in the type GooglePlayServicesUtil is not applicable for the arguments (PlayServices)"

The complete code for the class:

package com.test.testmaps2;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil;

public class PlayServices {
private static final int GPS_ERRORDIALOG_REQUEST = 9001;


public boolean servicesOK() {
    int isAvailable = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

    if (isAvailable == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        return true;
    }
    else if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(isAvailable)) {
        Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(isAvailable, this, GPS_ERRORDIALOG_REQUEST);
        dialog.show();
    }
    else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Can't connect to Google Play services", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    return false;
}

}

Answer 1

As the error suggests you need to pass Context to isGooglePlayServicesAvailable. For that you will probably want to fetch the context as an argument to your servicesOK method:

public boolean servicesOK(Context ctx) {
    int isAvailable = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(ctx);

Then call this method from your activity like:

servicesOK(this);