How can I fix this CrashlyticsMissingDependencyException?

Question

I have been using the latest Crashlytics (Fabric integration) for a while. But recently I encountered the following crash error due to missing dependency although I didn\'t

Answer 1

Seems like specifying the plugin version as:

classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.+' 

picks up 1.15.1, which has the problem.

Specifying major and minor to previous 1.14 seems to be stable:

classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.14.+'

Answer 2

Check if crashlytics is disabled in build.gradle file

    debug {
        ext.enableCrashlytics = false
    }

Instead use

    debug {
        ext.enableCrashlytics = true
    }

Answer 3

The issue also occurs if you accidentally include the Crashlytics BuildConfig - very easy to do with Android Studio/IntelliJ auto-imports.

I'd imported

import com.crashlytics.android.core.BuildConfig;

Instead of my own

import <package_name>.BuildConfig;

Answer 4

Make sure to add apply plugin: 'io.fabric' into your application project build.gradle. In my case, I had a common build.gradle with apply plugin: 'io.fabric'. Moving it to application project solved the problem.

Answer 5

Removing the application icon fixed Crashylitics, whaaat?

I had everything done based on the onboarding tutorial, using the latest versions, etc.

Just wasted an hour trying to figure this out. It turns out someone thought it was a good idea to read the package name of the application icon instead of context.packageName to get the application's resources given a context. It's done in this method:

io.fabric.sdk.android.services.common.CommonUtils#getResourcePackageName

This obviously blows up if you happen to use an icon that's not inside the APK, for example: android:icon="@android:drawable/sym_def_app_icon". It probably was a good idea at the time, wonder what weird bug they were trying to work around?!

Answer 6

The only workaround for now, if you really need to publish your app (like me), is to change the dynamic version numbers to static ones:

[...]

classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.14.4'

[...]

compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.2.0@aar') {
        transitive = true
}

[...]

EDIT:

an updated version of the Fabric SDK has been published; you can get it by changing the line to this:

classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.26.1'