Google Play Services 6.1 has been released with enhanced ecommerce analytics support in Google Tag Manager. It also ships with new improvements to the Google Drive Android API.
The latest release of Google Play Services also includes a refresh of the Google Fit developer preview to enable you to test your new fitness apps on any Android device.
Some of the other features of Google Play Services 6.1 are mentioned below
- Enhanced Ecommerce support in Google Tag Manager
- Enhancements to the Google Drive Android API
- Material design elements have been incorporated into the File Picker UI
- Addition of Recent and Starred views
- setParents() method to organize files and folders
- Contents class replaced with a simpler DriveContents class
The new enhanced ecommerce feature included with Google Play Services is an analytics extension designed to provide richer insights into pre-purchase shopping behaviour and into product performance.
“By including support for Enhanced Ecommerce in Google Tag Manager with the latest release of Google Play services, we are supercharging your ability to regularly update and manage tags on mobile apps more easily, so that you can consistently measure product impressions, shopping funnel events, and more”, mentions the official Android blog post.
Google will be officially rolling out Play Services 6.1 SDK within the next couple of days in addition to detailed documentation.
