Could not find play-services-basement.aar

Question

Yesterday I tried building my app and everything worked fine.

Today, without any changes to the project... All of a sudden I\'m greeted with this warning message tel

Answer 1

This is crazy!!! I faced the same issue. The builds were working fine and then suddenly started to fail with the same issue. I tried the suggestions above but it didn't work for me. Finally, this is what worked for me:

Update to latest firebase dependencies:

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.4'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:17.0.0'

also, the ads services:

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:17.0.0'

Note: with play-services-ads:17.0.0, it mandatory to add the following in the Manifest file, otherwise application crashes on opening.