Android 3.1.1 - Failed resolution of: Lcom/google/android/gms/common/internal/zzbq;

Question

since I\'ve updated to Android Studio 3.1, my project is not running anymore. I have searched for a solution all over the internet with no positive results. Here\'s the erro

Answer 1

I solved it by removing

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services:$play_service_version"

and keeping only important dependencies.

In my case I had

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services:$play_service_version"
implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:$play_service"

And I removed

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services:$play_service_version"

and kept

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:$play_service"

Here play_service_version & play_service are versions