Execution failed for task ‘:app:processDebugGoogleServices’ looking for google-services.json and unsuccessfully finding it

Question

I just installed the cordova firebase analytics plugin from (https://github.com/chemerisuk/cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics) but there seems to be a problem finding the google-services.json file.

This file is in the root of the Ionic project and has not caused me any trouble up until now. I have been using the cordova-plugin-firebase and angular fire 2 plugin with no trouble beforehand.

What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:processDebugGoogleServices’. File google-services.json is missing. The Google Services Plugin cannot function without it. Searched Location: C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\src\nullnull\debug\google-services.json C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\src\debug\nullnull\google-services.json C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\src\nullnull\google-services.json C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\src\debug\google-services.json C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\src\nullnullDebug\google-services.json C:\Users\User1\WebstormProjects\IONIC\Projects\myApp\platforms\android\app\google-services.json

andreszs andreszs · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-29T15:20:37

I assume you added your google-services.json services to your project's root.

In the platform tag for Android add the following resource-file tag if you are using cordova-android 7.0 or greater:

<platform name="android">
  <resource-file src="google-services.json" target="app/google-services.json" />
</platform>

If you are using cordova-android 6.x or earlier, add the following resource-file tag:

<platform name="android">
  <resource-file src="google-services.json" target="google-services.json" />
</platform>

Also make sure that dependent plugins, specially cordova-support-google-services, is installed with latest version 1.2.0.

As a side note, those Firebase plugins from chemerisuk tend to have these type of Cordova errors and warnings, which are a pain to fix. I've been dealing with his Firebase Auth plugin which shows identical errors, the funny thing is that plugin and app work just fine anyway.

Execution failed for task ‘:app:processDebugGoogleServices’ looking for google-services.json and unsuccessfully finding it

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