LogCat message: The Google Play services resources were not found. Check your project configuration to ensure that the resources are included

Google Mobile Ads SDK FAQ states that:

I keep getting the error 'The Google Play services resources were not found. Check your project configuration to ensure that the resources are included.'

You can safely ignore this message. Your app will still fetch and serve banner ads.

So if you included the google-play-services_lib correctly, and you're getting ads, you have nothing to worry about (I guess...)

This is a bug in the Google Play services library, and it is filed here under issue 755.

Unfortunately, there isn't any solution yet.

I just ran into this problem this morning and seemed very strange since my application was working fine up until today. I was getting the exact same "The Google Play services resources were not found..." message.

I tried opening the regular Google Maps application to see if I could get my location, but it wouldn't find it. Even after waiting 5 minutes, which is more than enough time to normally get a location from even the service provider via cell tower. So I checked Location Services.

Anyway, the problem turned out to be that on my S3 under Location Services -> Google Location Services. It was not checked. The other two location options were checked (VZW Location Services and Standalone GPS Services), but the last one, Google Location Services was not. After turning that on, the regular Google Maps could find my location and my application could find my location and the problem went away.

The error message pops up due to:

mMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);

when Google Location Services is not enabled.

After doing some more testing it looks like if the current location is null (cannot be determined from all sources) then you will get this error when trying to turn on setMyLocationEnabled.