FirebaseApp not initializing despite FirebaseApp.initializeApp() being called in Application class

Question

I am creating an Android application and I\'m currently trying to implement user authentication using Firebase. As far as I can tell, my app is connected to my Firebase serv

Answer 1

Update 2019 : If you update your Firebase dependencies to latest then you should update Google play services as well.

During the writing of this answer I had updated all my Firebase libs to 17.0.+ but my Google play service was still pointing at 4.1.0.

Updating play service version to 4.3.0(Latest) fixed it for me.