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

For me, I had to check the google-services.json file and make sure "package_name" was correctly set to the package name of my android app. The auto generated services file had .backend appended to it in my case.