I am trying to add firebase to my app and followed every step as told in https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup but as soon as a launch the app it crashes with the error
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E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.examplefirestore, PID: 29977
java.lang.BootstrapMethodError: Exception from call site #8 bootstrap method
at com.google.firebase.components.ComponentDiscovery.discoverLazy(ComponentDiscovery.java:112)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.<init>(FirebaseApp.java:418)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:299)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:267)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:252)
at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(FirebaseInitProvider.java:51)
at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1919)
at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1894)
at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.attachInfo(FirebaseInitProvider.java:45)
at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:6391)
at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:5938)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5853)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:199)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1650)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: Bootstrap method returned null
at com.google.firebase.components.ComponentDiscovery.discoverLazy(ComponentDiscovery.java:112)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.<init>(FirebaseApp.java:418)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:299)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:267)
at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(FirebaseApp.java:252)
at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(FirebaseInitProvider.java:51)
at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1919)
at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1894)
at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.attachInfo(FirebaseInitProvider.java:45)
at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:6391)
at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:5938)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5853)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:199)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1650)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
I have also cross checked my gradle moudle and every thing seems to be fine, here is my gradle module
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apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
android {
compileSdkVersion 30
buildToolsVersion "30.0.1"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.examplefirestore"
minSdkVersion 24
targetSdkVersion 30
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.0'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.4'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'
implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:28.1.0')
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore'
}
Even in graple project everything seems to be ok to me i have cross checked this multiple times, this is my gradle project
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// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.2"
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.8'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}
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Answer
It seems like you are missing
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compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}
in your build.gradle (app).