Receiving error when trying to connect with Google

Question

I'm trying to work with google's awareness api, and register instance of GoogleApiClient to awareness api, but i'm receiving an error which i can't find anywhere.

I've followed the manual, and enabled awareness services in the api consule. https://developers.google.com/awareness/android-api/get-started

This is how my manifest looks like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.test.awarenesstests">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gms.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

       <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.awareness.API_KEY"
        android:value="MY_KEY_GENERATED_IN_THE_DEVELOPER_CONSULE" />
    </application>

</manifest>

Very straightforward registration :

 GoogleApiClient googleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
                .addApi(Awareness.API).build();
 googleApiClient.connect();

This is the error i'm receiving - Invalid API Key for package = com.test.awarenesstests .Status code received = 6

Notice that there's something weird in the start of the log, a ping is made to google services and returning 403, it looks related to the final error.

07-10 15:35:50.745 29260-29490/? E/Volley: [6925] BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 403 for https://www.googleapis.com/usercontext/v1/controllerhub/ping
07-10 15:35:50.750 29260-29260/? E/ctxmgr: [BaseServerTask]Server task (PingTask) got error response.
                                           com.android.volley.AuthFailureError
                                               at com.android.volley.toolbox.BasicNetwork.performRequest(:com.google.android.gms:159)
                                               at ipb.performRequest(:com.google.android.gms:64)
                                               at com.android.volley.NetworkDispatcher.run(:com.google.android.gms:113)
07-10 15:35:50.755 29260-15589/? W/ctxmgr: [ContextManager3PCredentialsVerifier]Received a failed ping response with status code = 6
07-10 15:35:50.755 29260-29275/? E/AbstractServiceBroker: Getting service failed
                                                          java.lang.SecurityException: Invalid API Key for package = com.test.awarenesstests .Status code received = 6
                                                              at bti.a(:com.google.android.gms:109)
                                                              at btl.a(:com.google.android.gms:5046)
                                                              at iht.a(:com.google.android.gms:592)
                                                              at ikn.onTransact(:com.google.android.gms:824)
                                                              at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:446)
07-10 15:35:50.756 9603-9603/com.test.awarenesstests D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
07-10 15:35:50.757 9603-9603/com.test.awarenesstests E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                       Process: com.test.awarenesstests, PID: 9603
                                                                       java.lang.SecurityException: Invalid API Key for package = com.test.awarenesstests .Status code received = 6
                                                                           at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1546)
                                                                           at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1499)
                                                                           at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzu$zza$zza.zza(Unknown Source)
                                                                           at com.google.android.gms.common.internal.zzd.zza(Unknown Source)
                                                                           at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzqb$zzc.zzapi(Unknown Source)
                                                                           at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzqb$zzf.run(Unknown Source)
                                                                           at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:422)
                                                                           at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
                                                                           at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
                                                                           at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
                                                                           at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzrs.run(Unknown Source)
                                                                           at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Answer 1

Slightly different scenario in my case. I had 3 build variants

• Development
• Staging
• Production

So I had 3 separate google-services.json each for 3 variants. Along with this i had put the below code in manifest with developement API key.

 <meta-data
          android:name="com.google.android.awareness.API_KEY"
          android:value="<API_KEY_OF_DEVELOPMENT_ENVIRONEMT>" />
 <meta-data
          android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
          android:value="API_KEY_OF_DEVELOPMENT_ENVIRONEMT" />

When i made signed apk with Production enviroment, i was getting the same error. App was taking API key from AndroidManifest.xml instead of google-services.json.

So i commented out the API key in the manifest file, then problem got resolved.

Answer 2

The only thing you can read out of the stacktrace is that your API-Key isn't accepted. So you get an 403-forbidden. Do you generated the api-key right? Maybe your SHA1 fingerprint isn't the right?

Answer 3

Enable the Awareness Api from the developers console and it will work fine

Answer 4

I had the same issue. Check the applicationId in your application's build.gradle file. For me the applicationId and the package name i setted on the console.developers.google.com at my API key were not the same. I guess they have to be the same. After fixing the names it worked for me. I hope it will work for you.

Answer 5

This is an known bug. When GoogleApiClient encounters a network error in connect(), it throws a SecurityException.

Extremely annoying but you are not doing anything wrong (as long as you are using the right key)