Android - Firebase analytics causes failures

Question

Adding this line to my gradle:

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.0.1'

Results in this error:

error: resource android:attr/fontVariationSettings not found.

Based on what I read online, to fix this, I upgrade my compileSdkVersion from 27 to 28:

compileSdkVersion 28

Then I get this error when I try to run:

Program type already present: com.google.android.gms.internal.measurement.zzbq

And from there it's a spinning circle changing things and version numbers and adding things to the settings.gradle, etc, with androidx. I have no idea how to fix this, and I imagine there is a more simple solution. Thoughts?

EDIT: It may be worth mentioning that when I made the above changes, I see red across all of these, indicating that it should not use a different version (27) than the compileSdkVersion (28), so I'm not sure if I should make that change:

implementation "com.android.support:support-v4:$rootProject.supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$rootProject.supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$rootProject.supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:cardview-v7:$rootProject.supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:design:$rootProject.supportVersion"

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '19 at 03:44

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Well try to change to the latest version of firebase-analytics

com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.1.0

And in your build.gradle

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1

answered Aug 27 '19 at 03:44

Cyrille Con Morales

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Yep, I tried that. I get the following error: Program type already present: android.support.v4.os.IResultReceiver$Stub – svguerin3 Aug 27 '19 at 03:56
Just tried that, and I get: Program type already present: android.support.v4.app.INotificationSideChannel – svguerin3 Aug 27 '19 at 04:20
Maybe you can try some of this step https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49676155/what-does-program-type-already-present-mean – Cyrille Con Morales Aug 27 '19 at 04:25
I tried that step of excluding it, but I still get the same error :( – svguerin3 Aug 27 '19 at 04:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '19 at 10:58

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Paste below lines in build.gradle (Module:app) may this help you:

    configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
            force 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.0'
      }
    }

This will force the build to use a lower support library.

answered Aug 27 '19 at 10:58

Geekfreak

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I tried this, but unfortunately I get the same kind of error: Program type already present: android.support.v4.app.INotificationSideChannel – svguerin3 Aug 27 '19 at 19:03
Try invalidate caches/ restart – Geekfreak Aug 28 '19 at 05:14
Yep, after every one of these changes, I typically do that. Same error, though. :( – svguerin3 Aug 28 '19 at 17:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '19 at 14:22

Turned out I needed to go back to this version of Analytics for it to play nicely with my project:

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:16.0.3'

The app compat libraries are not compatible with v17 or later of the analytics SDK, since it was migrated to androidx (androidx and the old v4 and v7 support libs are not compatible). So in order to use the latest one, we would have to migrate all code to use androidx (which was not an option at this time).

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