How to test android application on Circle CI with Google Services Gradle Plugin

Question

I\'m developing android application with Google Services Gradle Plugin(It is needed from Firebase), and the plugin needs google-services.json.

I think the json file

Answer 1

1) Yes, it should - it contains sensitive information like your API key.

2) I don't think so

3) You can use similar aproach as in https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/google-auth/

• encode your google-services.json in base64. Make sure to remove any spaces from the encoded string
• put this to Environment Variable in Project settings of Circle CI ( I named it GOOGLE_SERVICES)

• in your circle.yml decode this variable to google-services.json file in your app directory. In my case I use

  echo $GOOGLE_SERVICES | base64 --decode > ~/${HOME}/app/google-services.json