Can't Build with firebase-config:16.0.0 and firebase-core:16.0.1

Question

When I build with the latest released versions of firebase-config and firebase-core, I get this error:

The library com

Answer 1

Oddly enough, the error does not occur when firebase-core is placed before other Firebase libs in the dependencies list:

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.1'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-config:16.0.0'
    ...
}