We have followed the Add Firebase to your Android Project but we can't see the app receiving data in the Firebase Console.
And when we launch the app, the log says:
FirebaseInitProvider: FirebaseApp initialization unsuccessful What does this mean? What are we doing wrong?
I can't find this error in the docs, nor here in StackOverflow.
What does this mean? What are we doing wrong?
Would assume, that the authentication did not succeed.
a) the buildscript repositories and dependencies for the project level build.gradle:
buildscript { repositories { google() jcenter() } dependencies { // Android Build Tools Plugin classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1" // Google Services Plugin classpath "com.google.gms:google-services:3.1.2" // Firebase Plugins (optional) // classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-plugins:1.1.5' } } b) the dependencies for the module level mobile/build.gradle (the Android Intel x86 images may still have a previous version of the Google Play Services installed, eg. 10.2.0 runs on the current x86 emulator, while 11.8.0 runs on my physical ARM device). referencing play-services and firebase-core will compile all their dependencies, unless excluding some them.
def playServicesVersion = "11.8.0" android { ... buildTypes { debug { // suffixing the package name for debug builds, // in order to partially mute the crash-reporting // is an *optional* configuration (see below): applicationIdSuffix ".debug" } } } dependencies { ... // Google Play Services Library (in particular "play-services-auth") compile("com.google.android.gms:play-services:${playServicesVersion}") {} // Google Firebase Library implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:${playServicesVersion}" // implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:${playServicesVersion}" // implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:${playServicesVersion}" } c) the bottom line of mobile/build.gradle should be:
// apply the Google Services Plugin apply plugin: "com.google.gms.google-services" d) make sure to have the (downloaded) credentials available at app/google-services.json; on the Firebase Console, one has to add both SHA1 (or SHA256) hashes, of the debug and the release key-store, in order to have both builds authenticating properly; once all matches, it should report:
I/FirebaseInitProvider: FirebaseApp initialization successful It's all well documented, just see Setup Google Play Services, Firebase Quickstart or Crash Reporting; while I find this article on the Firebase Blog quite useful: Organizing your Firebase-enabled Android app builds, because it explains how to partially mute the crash-reporting. The release notes always announce the updates & changes.
It happens when you dont have apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services' in your app/build.gradle. Try adding it.
Also make sure you have Google Play services SDK installed in Android SDK Manager.
The first thing I would advice you to check on is:
1) Have you included the uses-permission INTERNET in your Manifest ?
I got the same logcat output.
Fixed it by updating my Google Play Services dependency to 9.0.0 in my app/build.gradle
and updating
buildScript { //... dependencies { //... classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0' } } in my project build.gradle to 3.0.0
In my case I was trying to Selectively compile Google play Services. Instead of using
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.4.0' as described at: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#ensure_devices_have_the_google_play_services_apk
I manually added maps and some other dependencies module from Google Play Services as
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:9.4.0' compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-places:9.4.0' Unfourtunately Firebase stoped working after this.
As a result I had to rollback and return to use
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.4.0' instead of selectively.
Make sure you have added this line to app level gradle build file
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'