Why Android Studio is forcing to use Androidx from Android support library?

Question

Working on a React Native project but out of sudden it stopped working & started giving an error:

Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appCompo         


        

Answer 1

You can lock down your googleservices and firebase versions to avoid androidX.

In android/build.gradle add:

buildscript {
  ...
  ext {
    // Lock down googlePlayServicesVersion
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "16.1.0"
    firebaseVersion = "17.6.0"
  }
}

OR in gradle.properties add:

googlePlayServicesVersion=16.1.0
firebaseVersion=17.6.0