Ionic Cordova app stopped compiling after Google's June 17th Firebase SDK update

Question

I\'m unable to compile Ionic Cordova App after Firebase Major version update with Breaking Changes, specifically with June 17, 2019 update.

I tried downgrading to An

Answer 1

I suggest you to try to add in your build-extras.gradle, inside the platform/android folder of your project this:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
         force 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.1'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-tagmanager:16.0.8'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:16.1.0'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks:16.0.1'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement:16.2.0'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:16.1.0'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-stats:16.0.1'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.1'
         force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:16.0.0'
    }
}

In this way you will force the build command to ignore the updates and to use the previous versions. You don't even need to change any plugin (nor the android platform version)!

Every time firebase's libs are updated this happens.. and it is very annoying. I'd love to be able to turn off the auto dependency update on build command, but I don't think it is possible.