Can't update to com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0

Question

At start google-services ver. is classpath \'com.google.gms:google-services:4.1.0\', but when I change it to 4.2.0 the error occurs during Sy

Answer 1

I have the same problem when I'm trying to update to com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0. Deleting the gradle cache also did not help.

The only thing which made the AIOOBE dissapear was completely commenting out the app's maven repo dependencies.

  android {
    ...
    dependencies {

      // commented out
      // implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'

      // this works
      implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs/dropbox', includes: ['dropbox*.jar', 'json*.jar'])**

    }
  }

As you can see in my example, local file dependencies work. However, this is not the solution, maybe only a step in the direction of finding the cause of the error.

After more digging:

It looks like a bug of the google services plugin, and more exactly a bug of the StrictVersionMatcherPlugin which is automatically added with the google play services plugin.

They are checking version of the firebase and play-services libraries and somehow the check runs into an exception. It's a string.indexOf which bugs around.

if (depFromString.startsWith("project ")) { // TODO(paulrashidi): Figure out if a third level dependency shows depFromString. // In a project with other project dependencies the dep // string will be "project :module1" String depName = depFromString.split(":")[1];

depName is project :, so split[1] will fail