After upgrading to google play services 8.4.0 my app crashes on startup

Question

I\'ve been previously using google play services 8.3.0 without any issue. I\'m looking to upgrade to google play services 8.4.0. I\'m using the following play libraries:

Answer 1

I just had this issue but solved it by downgrading the gradle version like so:

Old, troublesome version:

    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0-rc2'

Fixed version:

    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.3'

Answer 2

I've faced the same issue while going through the official tutorial.

Solution was to change

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:2.0.0-alpha6'

to

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'

I've found the correct version number in the sample on the github.

Answer 3

Versions of play-services libs should be equal, for example:

DO

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.4.0'

DONT

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:7.8.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.4.0'

Answer 4

I think you should include the -base library of the same version. Then it starts working again.