Android Studio Gradle: Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugGoogleServices'. > No matching client found for package

Question

I am trying to upgrade my google play services dependencies to 8.4.0 by following the example Google gives here, but I am getting the following error (\'com.example.examplea

Answer 1

This exact same error happened to me only when I tried to build my debug build type. The way I solved it was to change my google-services.json for my debug build type. My original field had a field called client_id and the value was android:com.example.exampleapp, and I just deleted the android: prefix and leave as com.example.exampleapp and after that my gradle build was successful.

Hope it helps!

EDIT

I've just added back the android: prefix in my google-services.json and it continued to work correctly. Not sure what happened exactly but I was able to solve my problem with the solution mentioned above.