:app:generateCrashlyticsSymbolFileRelease - Specified path for unstripped native libs is not a directory

Describe your environment

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3'
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.0.0-beta02'
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-appdistribution-gradle:1.3.1'
    }

Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

When I try to run: ./gradlew clean assembleRelease uploadCrashlyticsSymbolFileRelease

I get next error:

Execution failed for task ':app:generateCrashlyticsSymbolFileRelease'.
> java.io.IOException: Specified path for unstripped native libs is not a directory: /Users/martin/repos/example-app-android/app/obj

If I manually move all my NDK libs to ./app folder I get the same error with different path:

Execution failed for task ':app:generateCrashlyticsSymbolFileRelease'.
> java.io.IOException: Specified path for stripped native libs is not a directory: /Users/martin/repos/example-app-android/app/build/intermediates/transforms/stripDebugSymbol/release

In this second case the build command sometimes fails, sometimes not.

This issue started to appear after I moved from Fabric Crashlytics plugin to Firebase Crashlytics plugin. In the Fabric case, I had the option to define: androidNdkOut and androidNdkLibsOut paths. Is that missing in the new Firebase plugin?

Relevant Code:

Old code example:

    crashlytics {
        enableNdk true
        androidNdkOut "$buildDir/ndklibs/obj"
        androidNdkLibsOut "$buildDir/ndklibs/libs"
    }

New Code example:

            firebaseCrashlytics {
                nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true

            }

In the Firebase case, I didn’t specify any paths.

To collect all ndk libs I use following code:

    configurations {
        ndkzip
    }

    task setupNdklibs(type: Sync) {
        dependsOn configurations.ndkzip
        from {
            configurations.ndkzip.collect { zipTree(it) }
        }
        into "$buildDir/ndklibs/"
    }
    build.finalizedBy setupNdklibs

and executing ./gradlew build

[mrichards]

In the new Firebase Crashlytics plugin, the androidNdkOut and androidNdkLibsOut properties have been changed to strippedNativeLibsDir and unstrippedNativeLibsDir, and should be declared in firebaseCrashlytics within the variant block, where you declared nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true.

Those options aren’t currently documented, though they will be shortly.

[vfishv]

😠 firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.2.0 can NOT build but 2.1.1 works good

Crashlytics could not determine stripped/unstripped native library directories for project ‘:app’, variant Release. These are required for generating symbol files when NDK build tasks cannot be automatically inferred. Please specify strippedNativeLibsDir and unstrippedNativeLibsDir in the firebaseCrashlytics extension.