Android Firebase authentication not receiving SMS with SDK above 11.8.0

Question

I'm implementing Android app that use Firebase to authenticate my users,

My problem is that after changing the Gradle dependency from:

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0'

To any higher SDK version, My code stop sending SMS authentication messages..

My code:

public class AuthenticationActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private PhoneAuthProvider.OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks mCallbacks;
    private EditText phoneNum;
    private PinView verifyCodeET;
    private String mVerificationId;
    private FirebaseAuth mAuth;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_authentication);
        mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        Button sendCodeButton = findViewById(R.id.submit1);
        Button verifyCodeButton = findViewById(R.id.submit2);
        phoneNum = findViewById(R.id.phonenumber);
        verifyCodeET = findViewById(R.id.pinView);
        sendCodeButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                String phoneNumber = phoneNum.getText().toString();
                PhoneAuthProvider.getInstance().verifyPhoneNumber(
                        phoneNumber, // Phone number to verify
                        60, // Timeout duration
                        TimeUnit.SECONDS, // Unit of timeout
                        AuthenticationActivity.this, // Activity (for callback binding)
                        mCallbacks); // OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks
            }
        });
        mCallbacks = new PhoneAuthProvider.OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks() {
            @Override
            public void onVerificationCompleted(PhoneAuthCredential phoneAuthCredential) {
                signInWithPhoneAuthCredential(phoneAuthCredential);
            }
            @Override
            public void onVerificationFailed(FirebaseException e) {
            }
            @Override
            public void onCodeSent(String verificationId,PhoneAuthProvider.ForceResendingToken token) {
                mVerificationId = verificationId;
            }
        };
        verifyCodeButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                String verificationCode = verifyCodeET.getText().toString();
                boolean success = true;
                PhoneAuthCredential credential = null;
                try {
                    credential = PhoneAuthProvider.getCredential(mVerificationId, verificationCode);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    // "Something went wrong"
                    success = false;
                }
                if (success) {
                    signInWithPhoneAuthCredential(credential);
                }
            }
        });
    }
    private void signInWithPhoneAuthCredential(PhoneAuthCredential credential) {
        mAuth.signInWithCredential(credential)
                .addOnCompleteListener(this, new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
                        if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                            // Sign in success
                        } else {
                            // "Invalid verification code"
                        }
                    }
                });
    }
}

This happens for any SDK version available between the current 16.1.0 to 12.0.0,

Once I'm changing back to 11.8.0 everything work as expected...

Any help will be appreciated

.

Edit

With Nouman Ch help I've added printing at onVerificationFailed() and saw the error message:

com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuthInvalidCredentialsException: The format of the phone number provided is incorrect. Please enter the phone number in a format that can be parsed into E.164 format. E.164 phone numbers are written in the format [+][country code][subscriber number including area code]. [ Invalid format. ]

Using the answer from here

I've added to the Gradle file:

implementation 'com.googlecode.libphonenumber:libphonenumber:7.0.4'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.7'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.1.0'

To the Java includes:

import com.google.i18n.phonenumbers.Phonenumber.PhoneNumber;
import com.google.i18n.phonenumbers.NumberParseException;
import com.google.i18n.phonenumbers.PhoneNumberUtil;

And edit the onClicK() function to be:

@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
    String phoneNumber = phoneNum.getText().toString();
    // Check phoneNumber.length()
    PhoneNumberUtil phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance();
    try {
        PhoneNumber numberProto = phoneUtil.parse(phoneNumber, "US");
        PhoneAuthProvider.getInstance().verifyPhoneNumber(
                phoneUtil.format(numberProto, PhoneNumberUtil.PhoneNumberFormat.E164), // Phone number to verify
                60, // Timeout duration
                TimeUnit.SECONDS, // Unit of timeout
                AuthenticationActivity.this, // Activity (for callback binding)
                mCallbacks); // OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks
    } catch (NumberParseException e) {
        // Wrong format
    }
}

Now everything work with the latest SDK version

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '19 at 09:35

Try e.printStackTrace(); to check which error you are getting. Use bellow code:

 mCallbacks = new PhoneAuthProvider.OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks() {
            @Override
            public void onVerificationCompleted(PhoneAuthCredential phoneAuthCredential) {
                signInWithPhoneAuthCredential(phoneAuthCredential);
            }
            @Override
            public void onVerificationFailed(FirebaseException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
            }
            @Override
            public void onCodeSent(String verificationId,PhoneAuthProvider.ForceResendingToken token) {
                mVerificationId = verificationId;
            }
        };

Hope this will work for you.

Android Firebase authentication not receiving SMS with SDK above 11.8.0

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