What can break an android build without code changes?

Question

I am working on a react-native app that uses react-native-firebase. I\'ve setup a CI build on travis with the aim to have reproducible builds, and it has sudden

Answer 1

For reference, this comment on github provides the answer to my question:

A dependency (react-native-device-info in my case) was using the latest version of one of its dependencies instead of a fixed/pinned version. When a new release of google services was released, it caused the build to pull in the new version for device-info, thereby causing the conflict with other dependencies that correctly pin the version they need.