Plugin conflicting with Firebase plugins

[sagrawal31]

Description

Wondering, if this CleverTap Cordova plugin works with Firebase plugins?

I'm using the latest versions of:

1. https://github.com/chemerisuk/cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging
2. https://github.com/chemerisuk/cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics
3. https://github.com/chemerisuk/cordova-plugin-firebase-crash

Our build without this plugin is working fine but as soon as, we are installing this one, we are getting the following errors:

> Task :app:generateDebugResValues
> Task :app:generateDebugResources
> Task :app:injectCrashlyticsMappingFileIdDebug
> Task :app:writeDebugApplicationId

> Task :app:processDebugGoogleServices
Parsing json file: /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/google-services.json

> Task :app:mergeDebugResources FAILED
[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

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BUILD FAILED in 7s
23 actionable tasks: 23 executed
/Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

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BUILD FAILED in 7s

We have been trying hard on this issue for the last 4 days but couldn't get it functional. We even looked at the issues of this plugin but couldn't find anything related exception this.

I know this is something related to google-services.json file which is being copied two times. One is being used by after plugin install hook and other is being copied by our config.xml i.e. <resource-file src="google-services.json" target="app/google-services.json" /> which is required for Cordova Firebase plugin.

Environment

Ionic:

   Ionic CLI          : 6.5.0 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli)
   Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.9.5
   @ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.3

Cordova:

   Cordova CLI       : 9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)
   Cordova Platforms : android 8.1.0
   Cordova Plugins   : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.1.3, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.1.3, (and 24 other plugins)

Utility:

   cordova-res (update available: 0.13.0) : 0.5.1
   native-run (update available: 1.0.0)   : 0.3.0

System:

   Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/Users/shashank/Library/Android/sdk)
   ios-deploy        : 1.10.0
   ios-sim           : 8.0.2
   NodeJS            : v10.16.0 (/usr/local/bin/node)
   npm               : 6.9.0
   OS                : macOS Catalina
   Xcode             : Xcode 11.2.1 Build version 11B500

[sagrawal31]

Summary of our last 3 days of research & debugging

We saw that this plugin also uses com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging so we tried to remove the cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging plugin. Which resulted in firebase-iid dependency mismatch followed by some other.

Then we tried to tweak the two version of google-services.json file but removing one location of those fails the other.

[sagrawal31]

Updated the environment information.

[sagrawal31]

@darshanclevertap any update here? This is a blocker for us.

[darshanclevertap]

@sagrawal31

v2.1.9 is live.

You can use Firebase Cloud Messaging version using the following command -

cordova plugin add https://github.com/CleverTap/clevertap-cordova.git 
--variable CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID="ACCOUNT_ID" 
--variable CLEVERTAP_TOKEN="ACCOUNT_TOKEN" 
--variable FIREBASE_MESSAGING_VERSION="20.1.+"

Please note, using FCM v18 and above will make Android use Android support libs, please add the following two lines in your gradle.properties file -

android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

[sagrawal31]

That's great @darshanclevertap

I'll test out this.

[sagrawal31]

@darshanclevertap I'm still getting the error

> Task :app:generateDebugResValues
> Task :app:generateDebugResources
> Task :app:injectCrashlyticsMappingFileIdDebug
> Task :app:writeDebugApplicationId

> Task :app:processDebugGoogleServices
Parsing json file: /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/google-services.json

> Task :app:mergeDebugResources FAILED
[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 7s
23 actionable tasks: 23 executed
/Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_app_id] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
  [string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	[string/google_api_key] /Users/shashank/Projects/onmobile/kids-app/mobile-app/platforms/android/app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources

* Try:
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* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 7s

Please reopen this issue.

[sagrawal31]

Although, after various iterations, I was able to pass the build and run the code. Basically, I commented out the code https://github.com/CleverTap/clevertap-cordova/blob/2.2.0/scripts/androidAfterPluginAdd.js#L38..L62 which actually modifying platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml.

May I know if the above lines L38..L62 are actually required.

[darshanclevertap]

@sagrawal31 You're getting the build error when you're using cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging along with CleverTap?

[darshanclevertap]

@sagrawal31 Give me some time, I will get back to you on this.

[darshanclevertap]

@sagrawal31 The lines do the following -

• It reads from either of the 2 files (google-services.json , platforms/android/assets/www/google-services.json) and writes the contents to the following file: platforms/android/google-services.json
• Updates the google_app_id and google_api_key in platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml file with mobilesdk_app_id and current_key values present in above JSON files.

Since we set the Firebase version in build.gradle to ensure an out-of-the-box experience, we assume that google_app_id and google_api_key are not present in strings.xml and we copy it manually using the script.

Since you're using the cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging plugin, I think they're doing it too and hence a Duplicate Resources error is being thrown. I'd suggest you proceed by commenting out the code as we cannot remove this code from the script right now.

[sagrawal31]

You're getting the build error when you're using cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging along with CleverTap?

Yes.

The lines do the following

Yes, that I understood already since the first creation of the issue. What I meant is that whether those lines are required. Which you answered later. But I don't think so cordova-plugin-firebase-messaging is doing something similar. I checked their code.

If you look closely, the task Task :app:processDebugGoogleServices followed by Task :app:mergeDebugResources is actually failing which seems to be internal from Google Services Gradle Plugin.

[sagrawal31]

And actually, as per my understanding, you don't need to manually set those two variables in strings.xml (that is being done by hook script) as the Google services plugin will already do it for you-

• https://developers.google.com/android/guides/google-services-plugin#processing_the_json_file
• Missing google_app_id firebase/quickstart-android#458 (comment)

So the SDK should automatically pick the google_app_id & google_api_key because the Google services plugin is producing the strings.xml at compile time.

On the 2nd thought, the hook script in this plugin is by default using the first client (at 0th index) i.e. jsonContents.client[0].client_info which is also wrong because if you configure multiple apps in Firebase and when you download the google-services.json files, it is not compulsory that the required package id of my app will be present at 0th index i.e. client[0].

While if you remove that and use the variables from already present variables, Google plugin will make sure that you get the correct client info of the same bundle id as of my app.