Problem with play-services-measurement-base on ion

Question

I have a problem on an ionic project that it started happening yesterday without modifying any dependency.

When I run ionic cordova run android I have this error:

The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[16.5.0,16.5.0], [16.4.0,16.4.0]], but resolves to 16.5.0. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

But I didn't installed any dependency in these days.

This is my cordova plugins list:

cordova-fabric-plugin 1.1.14-dev "cordova-fabric-plugin"
cordova-plugin-advanced-http 2.0.9 "Advanced HTTP plugin"
cordova-plugin-app-version 0.1.9 "AppVersion"
cordova-plugin-appminimize 1.0.1 "AppMinimize"
cordova-plugin-apprate 1.4.0 "AppRate"
cordova-plugin-appsee 2.6.0 "Appsee"
cordova-plugin-badge 0.8.8 "Badge"
cordova-plugin-datepicker 0.9.3 "DatePicker"
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-dialogs 2.0.1 "Notification"
cordova-plugin-facebook4 3.2.0 "Facebook Connect"
cordova-plugin-file 6.0.1 "File"
cordova-plugin-firebase 2.0.5 "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-freshchat 1.2.0 "Freshchat plugin for Phonegap"
cordova-plugin-geolocation 4.0.1 "Geolocation"
cordova-plugin-globalization 1.11.0 "Globalization"
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser 3.0.0 "InAppBrowser"
cordova-plugin-inapppurchase-fixed 1.1.0 "In App Purchase"
cordova-plugin-insomnia 4.3.0 "Insomnia (prevent screen sleep)"
cordova-plugin-local-notification 0.9.0-beta.2 "LocalNotification"
cordova-plugin-media 5.0.2 "Media"
cordova-plugin-nativegeocoder 3.2.2 "NativeGeocoder"
cordova-plugin-nativestorage 2.3.2 "NativeStorage"
cordova-plugin-network-information 2.0.1 "Network Information"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.2 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.3 "Whitelist"
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing 5.4.4 "SocialSharing"
cordova-support-google-services 1.2.1 "cordova-support-google-services"
es6-promise-plugin 4.2.2 "Promise"
ionic-plugin-deeplinks 1.0.19 "Ionic Deeplink Plugin"
nl.kingsquare.cordova.background-audio 1.0.1 "background-audio"
pushwoosh-cordova-plugin 7.13.0 "Pushwoosh"

I found these dependencies in my platforms/android/app/build.gradle (if it's good to know):

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
    implementation(project(path: ":CordovaLib"))
    compile "com.android.support:support-v4:24.1.1+"
    compile "com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-urlconnection:3.10.0"
    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-tagmanager:+"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:+"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:+"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-config:+"
    compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:+"
    compile "com.android.support:support-v4:26.+"
    compile "com.android.support:support-v4:27.+"
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.+"
    compile "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.+"
    compile "com.android.support:design:27.+"
    compile "com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2"
    compile "com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.7.1"
    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:1.1.60"
    compile "com.pushwoosh:pushwoosh:5.13.0"
    compile "com.pushwoosh:pushwoosh-amazon:5.13.0"
    compile "com.pushwoosh:pushwoosh-badge:5.13.0"
    compile "com.pushwoosh:pushwoosh-inbox:5.13.0"
    compile "com.pushwoosh:pushwoosh-inbox-ui:5.13.0"
    compile "com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.38.1"
    compile "com.appsee:appsee-android:2.6.0"
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END
}

I don't know where to search. I found a workaround that is disabling version check of GoogleServicesPlugin in the platforms/android/build.gradle making: com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin.config.disableVersionCheck = true but it doesn't work for me.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: It seems like i'm not the only one. Here.

Answer 1

No solutions posted here worked for me. A wonderful person opened a pull request in the cordova-firebase-plugin official repo and it works.

Steps I did:

1 - Remove cordova-firebase-plugin with ionic cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-firebase

2 - Install: ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex

3 - rm -rf node_modules/ plugins/ platforms/android package-lock.json

4 - ionic cordova platform add android && npm install

And now it's working.

Answer 2

Follow my perfect solution for the cordova firebase issue.

1. ionic cordova platform rm android
2. npm uninstall -g cordova
3. npm install -g cordova@9.0.0
4. ionic cordova platform add android (e.g v8.0.0)
5. ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex (e.g v6.0.7)
6. ionic cordova run android

New cordova-plugin-firebasex plugin will fix all the issues related to firebase and it is really good alternative for cordova-plugin-firebase.

Answer 3

I was facing the same error, I just deleted platforms/android and installed again (ionic cordova prepare android) then everything went back as it was.

Answer 4

I am having exactly the same issue. The problem is caused by cordova-plugin-firebase. I am currently investigating. Will update this answer when I found the exact course.

For now you can try to ionic cordova plugin rm <plugin> to see whether this resolves your current error too.

Update: Have a look here for possible fixes. This open PR seems to work. Hopefully it will be merged very soon.

Answer 5

I found a solution for me in the forum mentioned in Yannic Hamann answer (Ionic Forum).

The comment from systems_qualigy here is about locking the versions in project.properties.

cordova.system.library.4=com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.8 
cordova.system.library.5=com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.5.0 
cordova.system.library.6=com.google.firebase:firebase-config:16.4.1 
cordova.system.library.7=com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:16.2.4

I need also to lock the version of

com.google.android.gms:play-services-tagmanager:16.0.8

I took the version from Martins answer and could succesfully rebuild my project.