Is it possible to get the android advertising id without adding play services ads dependency?

Question

I am using the google play ads dependency just to get the advertising id.

com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:7.8.0

Is there any way to avoid this as the library has a method count of 6201.

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Not all of GPS is proguaded. Click on "external" libs from the left hand side and you can see which module that AdvertisingId will be in. – Varistor

Answer 1

AdvertisingIdClient and its associated classes are also found in the much smaller

com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement:8.3.0

if you use Google Play services 8.3. Prior to that point, you are correct in that it was part of play-services-ads.

In any case, it is strongly recommended that you use ProGuard to remove unused code from your app before shipping retail versions of your app.

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