Crashlytics setup crashes app on every second run

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: 3.4.2
• Firebase Component: Crashlytics
• Component version: 17.1.1
• Crashlytics Gradle plugin version: 2.2.0

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

On every second start of the app, it crashes during startup with the following error:

 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The Crashlytics build ID is missing. This occurs when Crashlytics tooling is absent from your app's build configuration. Please review Crashlytics onboarding instructions and ensure you have a valid Crashlytics account.
        at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5265)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4847)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4787)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:154)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1452)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:234)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5526)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
     Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The Crashlytics build ID is missing. This occurs when Crashlytics tooling is absent from your app's build configuration. Please review Crashlytics onboarding instructions and ensure you have a valid Crashlytics account.
        at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.internal.common.CrashlyticsCore.onPreExecute(CrashlyticsCore.java:122)
        at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.FirebaseCrashlytics.init(FirebaseCrashlytics.java:165)
        at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.CrashlyticsRegistrar.buildCrashlytics(CrashlyticsRegistrar.java:55)
        at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.CrashlyticsRegistrar.access$lambda$0(CrashlyticsRegistrar.java)
        at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.CrashlyticsRegistrar$$Lambda$1.create(CrashlyticsRegistrar.java)
        at com.google.firebase.components.ComponentRuntime.lambda$new$0(com.google.firebase:firebase-components@@16.0.0:69)
        at com.google.firebase.components.ComponentRuntime$$Lambda$1.get(com.google.firebase:firebase-components@@16.0.0)
        at com.google.firebase.components.Lazy.get(com.google.firebase:firebase-components@@16.0.0:53)
        at com.google.firebase.components.ComponentRuntime.initializeEagerComponents(com.google.firebase:firebase-components@@16.0.0:158)
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeAllApis(com.google.firebase:firebase-common@@19.3.0:563)
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(com.google.firebase:firebase-common@@19.3.0:304)
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(com.google.firebase:firebase-common@@19.3.0:268)
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(com.google.firebase:firebase-common@@19.3.0:253)
        at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(com.google.firebase:firebase-common@@19.3.0:51)
        at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1748)
        at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1723)

It seems to be a crashlytics gradle plugin issue, as it deletes com_crashlytics_build_id.xml in build\generated\crashlytics on every second run, thus causing the crash. It works with gradle plugin 2.1.1

Relevant Code:

Project level build.gradle excerpt:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.3'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3'
classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.2.0'

Module level build.gradle excerpt:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.crashlytics'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.appid"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 28
        multiDexEnabled true
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled true
            shrinkResources true
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-project.txt'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.9'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-dynamic-links:17.0.0'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:17.2.0'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics:17.1.1'
}

[tsengvn]

my team run into the same problem and we managed to workaround like this (to make the gradle always generate the file for us)

tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
        if (task.name.startsWith("injectCrashlyticsMappingFileId")) {
            task.outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
        }
    }

Hope we can know the root cause of this issue

[songzhangzhang]

I have the same issue. After upgrading gradle to 5.6.4, it’s resolved.

At first I use gradle 5.1.1, but it seems to not work with firebase-crashlytics-gradle 2.2.0.

I update the gradle-wrapper.properties like this: distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip