Endless google play services & firebase VERSION problems

[mesqueeb]

Describe the bug
This plugin gives me problems building for android.

I have installed:

• cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
• cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release

And have tried a couple of settings.

First of all, it won't build at all because of this error:

Failed to apply plugin [class 'com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin'] > For input string: "+"

Which can be fixed by:

1. go to cordova/platforms/android/cordova-support-google-services/ and open the gradle file
2. to comment out the line: // apply plugin: com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin

(This solution is from this thread)
Ok, so now it can build, but we have a lot of version errors.

Option 1

put all versions of the helper plugins on 16.0.6
Then we get errors like:

> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-config:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-common:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-impl:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-measurement-connector-impl:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-api:16.0.6.
> Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-common:16.0.6.

And many more, and for each those lines a bunch of files it "searched" through.

Option 2

put all versions of the helper plugins on 16.+
Then we get errors like:

Failed to notify dependency resolution listener.
> The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[16.0.5,16.0.5], [16.0.0,16.0.0]], but resolves to 16.0.5. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.
> The library com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics is being requested by various other libraries at [[16.0.6,16.0.6], [16.0.1,16.0.1]], but resolves to 16.0.6. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

Does anyone know what the correct versions are I need to use for firebase and google play ?

Best regards!

[mesqueeb]

Fixed it by using '+' for all versions

My config.xml

     <plugin name="cordova-plugin-googleplus" spec="7.0.0">
        <variable name="PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION" value="+" />
    </plugin>
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-firebase" spec="^2.0.5" />
    <plugin name="cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release" spec="^2.0.0">
        <variable name="PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION" value="+" />
    </plugin>
    <plugin name="cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release" spec="^2.0.0">
        <variable name="FIREBASE_VERSION" value="+" />
    </plugin>

my package.json

        "plugins": {
            "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {},
            "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser": {},
            "cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine": {},
            "cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing": {
                "ANDROID_SUPPORT_V4_VERSION": "24.1.1+"
            },
            "cordova-plugin-googleplus": {
                "PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION": "+"
            },
            "cordova-plugin-firebase": {},
            "cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release": {
                "PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION": "+"
            },
            "cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release": {
                "FIREBASE_VERSION": "+"
            }

the be sure to remove and add android again!

1. cordova platform remove android
2. cordova platform add android
3. and apply the fix of my first post:
   The fix for error:

Failed to apply plugin [class 'com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin'] > For input string: "+"

Then all should work!