Ionic Cordova App Stopped Compiling After Google's June 17Th Firebase Sdk Update

Ionic Cordova app stopped compiling after Google's June 17th Firebase SDK update

This build failure is due to a major version release of the Google Play Services and Firebase libaries on June 17.

The new library versions have the following requirements:

• Upgrade com.android.tools.build:gradle to v3.2.1 or later.
• Upgrade compileSdkVersion to 28 or later.
• Update your app to use Jetpack (AndroidX)

The first two requirements can be resolved by updating to use cordova-android@8.0.0.

The third requires that your Android project migrates to using AndroidX (Jetpack).
AndroidX is the successor to the widely-used Android Support Library.
AndroidX now used by the latest versions of Play Services/Firebase libraries and the Support library is used by many existing plugins such as cordova-plugin-firebase.
The two libraries cannot live side-by-side in the same Android build - doing so will lead to build failure.

To resolve this issue, add the following two plugins your Cordova project:

• cordova-plugin-androidx to enable AndroidX in the Android project.
• cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter to dynamically patch the source code of any plugins using the Support Library to use the AndroidX equivalents.

For a working example of how to try this out in a test project, see my comment on this Github issue.

Note: if you are using cordova-plugin-firebase and encountering errors, you can instead use my fork of that plugin which is published as cordova-plugin-firebasex and is fixed to resolve issues caused by the new Firebase SDK:

rm -Rf platforms/android
cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebase
rm -Rf plugins/ node_modules/
npm install
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex
cordova platform add android

Problem updating to android 7.0.0 on cordova project: Failed to execute aapt

Finally, following this answer got it to work.
Additionally, I had to upgrade (remove and add again) cordova-plugin-compat@1.2.0

And finally got the cordova build android to work.

However, when trying to compile the java code along with code in www folder, I have problems with some imports on .java classes. That's for another question though.

Following the answer quoted, I got the apk running

Cordova stopped building after the 23rd April 2020 Firebase update

While it's a bit of trial and error with the versioning, the following combination of plugins has solved the problem by locking to a specific version for all other plugins that depend on google/firebase services:

• cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release: https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release (was already installed)
• cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release: https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release (was NOT installed)
• cordova-plugin-firebase-lib: https://github.com/wizpanda/cordova-plugin-firebase-lib (was already installed)

processDebugResources Error appears while building an android application using Ionic 3

Problem solved, when I added all three plugins.

cordova-plugin-firebasex

cordova-plugin-androidx

cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter

Thanks to comment:
https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase/issues/1081#issuecomment-503135862

My current configuration:

ionic info

Ionic:

   Ionic CLI          : 5.0.3 (C:\Users\volkk\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ionic)
   Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.9.2
   @ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.4

Cordova:

   Cordova CLI       : 9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)
   Cordova Platforms : android 8.0.0
   Cordova Plugins   : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.1.2, (and 19 other plugins)

Utility:

   cordova-res : 0.3.0
   native-run  : not installed

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (C:\android)
   NodeJS            : v10.15.1 (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe)
   npm               : 6.9.0
   OS                : Windows 10

ionic cordova plugins list
> cordova.cmd plugin ls
com-sarriaroman-photoviewer 1.1.18 "PhotoViewer"
cordova-background-geolocation 2.12.3-beta.1 "BackgroundGeolocation"
cordova-plugin-androidx 1.0.2 "cordova-plugin-androidx"
cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter 1.1.0 "cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter"
cordova-plugin-app-version 0.1.9 "AppVersion"
cordova-plugin-background-fetch 5.4.1 "CDVBackgroundFetch"
cordova-plugin-camera 4.0.3 "Camera"
cordova-plugin-cocoapod-supportx 1.6.1 "Cordova CocoaPods Dependency Support"
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-dialogs 2.0.1 "Notification"
cordova-plugin-file 6.0.1 "File"
cordova-plugin-file-transfer 1.7.1 "File Transfer"
cordova-plugin-filepath 1.5.5 "cordova-plugin-filepath"
cordova-plugin-firebasex 2.1.0 "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-insomnia 4.3.0 "Insomnia (prevent screen sleep)"
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.1.2 "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard"
cordova-plugin-qrscanner 3.0.1 "QRScanner"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.2 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.3 "Whitelist"
cordova-sqlite-storage 3.2.0 "Cordova sqlite storage plugin - cordova-sqlite-storage plugin version"

Cordova Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexBuilderForDebug'

I had the same issue and fixed it by editing platforms/android/project.properties

Change

cordova.system.library.16=com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:11.0.4
cordova.system.library.17=com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.0.4

To

cordova.system.library.16=com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:+
cordova.system.library.17=com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:+

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