bug: npx cap sync android breaks the ./gradlew bundleRelease

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 4.0.1 @capacitor/core: 4.0.1 @capacitor/android: 4.0.1 @capacitor/ios: 4.0.1

Installed Dependencies:

@capacitor/ios: not installed @capacitor/cli: 4.0.1 @capacitor/core: 4.0.1 @capacitor/android: 4.0.1

[success] Android looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

After upgrade to capacitor 4, everytime I run npx cap sync android, the cli is changing 2 lines on both build.gradle (reference below) in a way that my next command (“./gradlew bundleRelease”) won’t run.

android/app/capacitor.build.gradle android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle

Output after running ./gradlew bundleRelease

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:checkReleaseDuplicateClasses’.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ‘:app:releaseRuntimeClasspath’. Could not find platform(‘com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:30.3.1’). Required by: project :app project :app > project :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:. Required by: project :app project :app > project :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins

Expected Behavior

The lines should be like this

implementation platform(‘com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:30.3.1’)

instead of

implementation “platform(‘com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:30.3.1’)”

if I change it manually afterwards, it works.

Code Reproduction

The problem starts when adding cordova-plugin-firebase-* dependencies which include the Firebase Android BoM (Bill of Materials) ( I have many ).

I’ve created a minimal reproduction here: https://github.com/prosidney/reproduce-ionic-platform-issue

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 8.15.0

node --version output: v18.7.0

pod --version output (iOS issues only):

Additional Context

Firebase Android BoM (Bill of Materials) https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/learn-more#bom

[jcesarmobile]

I’ve been testing and it wasn’t working on Capacitor 3 neither, using bom dependencies was not supported on cordova until cordova-android 11, released less than a month ago. It breaks now because you have updated to cordova-plugin-firebase-config 7.0.1, which was released 2 days ago and uses bom now. You can downgrade the plugin to version 6.1.0 until we fix the issue.

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