Initialize FirebaseApp without google-services.json

• Android Studio version: 3.2
• Firebase Component: Core/Analytics(Database, Firestore, Storage, Functions, etc)
• Component version: 16.0.4

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

I am trying to initialize the FirebaseApp, only by using the FirebaseOptions builder, like this, first thing in my application (I use only applicationId and ApiKey, since I only want the analytics for start) :

FirebaseOptions options = new FirebaseOptions.Builder()
                    .setApplicationId(applicationID) // Required for Analytics.
                    .setApiKey(apiKey) // Required for Auth.
                    .build();
FirebaseApp.initializeApp(context, options);

I do not have a google-services.json file in my project, I have removed the FirebaseInitProvider, like this, in my AndroidManifest.xml:

<provider
    android:name="com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.firebaseinitprovider"
    tools:node="remove"/>.

When starting the application, while trying to View events in the Android Studio debug log, like this: adb shell setprop log.tag.FA VERBOSE adb shell setprop log.tag.FA-SVC VERBOSE adb logcat -v time -s FA FA-SVC

I get Missing google_app_id. Firebase Analytics disabled. See https://goo.gl/NAOOOI .

[ddukesterman]

@samtstern Any update on this issue?

[iliaskomp]

We are also affected from this issue since we are using a content provider instead of google-services.json. We are trying to migrate to firebase crashlytics with mappingFileUploadEnabled set to true. The build fails with the following error:

Crashlytics could not find the resource file generated by Google Services. You may need to execute the :process<Variant>GoogleServices Task. Please check your Firebase project configuration (https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup). 

The issue is two years old and it is the highest voted firebase sdk github issue, shouldn’t it have a top priority?