Flutter: Firestore component is not present

Question

I have a problem with Firestore database under Flutter. I have done everything, what the package setup documentation says, looked into 2-3 finished public application, and t

Answer 1

Okay, so I figured out from looking into an other problem.

I don't know if I was the only one who didn't know, but because of a new gradle update,

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1'

was deprecated. I don't really know how the hell, but this caused, that somehow Flutter didn't get the instance right, and throw a nullPointer exception. If anyone has the same problem ( debug console show some deprecated warning), you should change the

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1'

     }
  }
}

lines in android/build.gradle to

buildscript {
    repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()
        }

    dependencies {
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0'
            classpath ('com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1') {
                exclude group: 'com.google.guava', module: 'guava-jdk5'
       }
    }
}

I don't really know, why a deprecated form of dependency include caused such a problem, but this change worked for me, and I hope it helps others too. Besides that, I don't think this should cause such a wasted day, as a lot a of documentation should include this fix for the devs.