googlePlayServicesVersion problem [with temporary solution, should i do PR?]

Found this bug, maybe just me or some other with the googlePlayServicesVersion problem, so am sharing my solution/fix here that takes me hours to solve:

As stated on the documentation, we have to set googlePlayServicesVersion to 15.0.0, but somehow I got this error

Failed to capture snapshot of input files for task ':app:preDebugBuild' property 'compileManifests' during up-to-date check.
The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[15.0.0,15.0.0]], but resolves to 15.1.0. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

without setting the googlePlayServicesVersion, my error will fall on 15.0.1:

The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[15.0.1,15.0.1]], but resolves to 15.1.0. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

The temporary fix/solution in my code will be updating include.gradle (is it set by scripts/installer.js?) on these lines below

compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:$googlePlayServicesVersion" -> compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:15.0.1"

compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:$googlePlayServicesVersion" -> compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.0"

(I got the latest version from here: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup)

[andermev]

The same for me, I looked up this issue in several pages, until finally I achieved resolve it.

I am going to share you my app.gradle

dependencies {
  compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.0"
  compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

android {  
  defaultConfig {  
    generatedDensities = []
    multiDexEnabled true
    applicationId = "org.nativescript.applicationId"
  }  
  aaptOptions {  
    additionalParameters "--no-version-vectors"  
  }

  project.ext {
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "15.0.0"
  }

  buildTypes {
      release {
          minifyEnabled false
          proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
      }
  } 

  dexOptions {
    jumboMode true
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
  }
} 

def settingsGradlePath

if(project.hasProperty("appResourcesPath")){
    settingsGradlePath = "$project.appResourcesPath/Android/settings.gradle";
} else {
    settingsGradlePath = "$rootDir/../../app/App_Resources/Android/settings.gradle";
}

def settingsGradleFile = new File(settingsGradlePath);

if(settingsGradleFile.exists())
{
    apply from: settingsGradleFile;
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Perhaps, there is something to fix in my file but it’s working.

I hope that it can be helped for you.

[indradha]

hi @EddyVerbruggen I’ve checked the latest version 6.8.1, but the file changes a bit different and still contain the bug, am putting the PR #908