google-services:4.3.9 breaks firebase

Android app

My root build.gradle.kts contains

    dependencies {
        classpath("com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.8")

I updated today com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.8 to com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.9 and my android app crashes on launch now due to firebase.

2021-08-06 22:30:10.671 13469-13469/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.rollertoaster.app.free, PID: 13469
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {com.rollertoaster.app.free/com.rollertoaster.app.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process com.rollertoaster.app.free. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4205)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4237)
        at android.app.servertransaction.ResumeActivityItem.execute(ResumeActivityItem.java:52)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeLifecycleState(TransactionExecutor.java:176)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:97)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
     Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process com.rollertoaster.app.free. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.getInstance(FirebaseApp.java:183)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.FirebasePerformance.getInstance(FirebasePerformance.java:132)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.FirebasePerformanceInitializer.onAppColdStart(FirebasePerformanceInitializer.java:29)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.application.AppStateMonitor.sendAppColdStartUpdate(AppStateMonitor.java:274)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.application.AppStateMonitor.onActivityResumed(AppStateMonitor.java:195)
        at android.app.Application.dispatchActivityResumed(Application.java:436)
        at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResumed(Activity.java:1265)
        at android.app.Activity.onResume(Activity.java:1789)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1446)
        at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:7939)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4195)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4237) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.ResumeActivityItem.execute(ResumeActivityItem.java:52) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeLifecycleState(TransactionExecutor.java:176) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:97) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930) 

If I revert back from .9 to .8, then everything works again.

[davidmotson]

google-services-plugin 4.3.10 is now live and should fix the above issue, please re-open if this is not the case.

[jd565]

We are still periodically hitting this issue on 4.3.10. Some of the builds coming from our CI machine will hit this error, and then the next build will be fine. I am unsure whether it is a caching issue or what exactly. When I look on the build machine the values.xml file is in the correct place, but looking in the output APK, the string ‘google_app_id’ does not appear in the ‘resources.arsc’ file (according to grep). It does appear in that file for builds that work.