Android data does not send to Firebase until debug is used

[CookieCookson]

Thanks for the great plugin, @chemerisuk! Everything is working fantastic on iOS, but have a little glitch with how it works on Android.

I can log lots of events, views etc and nothing appears in the Firebase Analytics StreamView (I get "OK" returned in the JS console, and no errors in logcat). If I then do adb shell setprop debug.firebase.analytics.app com.my.app.name, do another analytics command and then switch back with adb shell setprop debug.firebase.analytics.app .none. then all of the non-debug data suddenly appears on the StreamView alongside the debug data on the DebugView.

Without triggering this, the data never gets sent through to the server. I don't really know how to replicate this, I assume this works fine for everyone else from a scratch project?

Only thing I can think of that might be conflicting is the phonegap-plugin-push plugin, which is on 2.0.0. I am using 0.10.1 of cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics.

[qbix0r]

Hi, I'm having exact same issue.
@CookieCookson How did you find out phonegap-plugin-push might cause conflict?

This is a list of plugins in my project, I'm using newest ionic version

        "com-sarriaroman-photoviewer": "~1.1.10",
        "com.wikitude.phonegap.WikitudePlugin": "git+http://github.com/jacobjordan94/wikitude-cordova-plugin",
        "cordova-android": "^6.2.3",
        "cordova-android-support-gradle-release": "~0.0.2",
        "cordova-plugin-background-mode": "~0.7.2",
        "cordova-plugin-badge": "~0.7.4",
        "cordova-plugin-camera": "~2.4.1",
        "cordova-plugin-compat": "~1.1.0",
        "cordova-plugin-console": "~1.0.7",
        "cordova-plugin-device": "~1.1.6",
        "cordova-plugin-dialogs": "~1.3.3",
        "cordova-plugin-facebook4": "~1.9.1",
        "cordova-plugin-file": "~4.3.3",
        "cordova-plugin-file-transfer": "~1.6.3",
        "cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics": "^0.10.1",
        "cordova-plugin-flurryanalytics": "^1.2.1",
        "cordova-plugin-geolocation": "~2.4.3",
        "cordova-plugin-googlemaps": "git+https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps.git#12266a62dd4f9fabb9b2d270dcc715a02b8a40ed",
        "cordova-plugin-googleplus": "~5.1.1",
        "cordova-plugin-hockeyapp": "~2.2.4",
        "cordova-plugin-nativestorage": "~2.0.2",
        "cordova-plugin-network-information": "~1.3.3",
        "cordova-plugin-request-location-accuracy": "~2.2.1",
        "cordova-plugin-screen-orientation": "~2.0.1",
        "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": "~4.0.3",
        "cordova-plugin-statusbar": "~2.1.3",
        "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "~1.3.2",
        "cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine": "git+http://github.com/driftyco/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine.git",
        "cordova.plugins.diagnostic": "~3.6.5",
        "de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification": "git+http://github.com/hasandogu/cordova-plugin-local-notifications#ios10",
        "ionic-plugin-keyboard": "~2.2.1"```

[CookieCookson]

@qbix0r https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-push/blob/master/docs/INSTALLATION.md#co-existing-with-plugins-that-use-firebase

It states here problems 'may' arise, but I think that was more to do with conflicting library versions, which I have manually resolved by setting the google/firebase libraries to 11.0.1. My project.properties looks like:

target=android-25
android.library.reference.1=CordovaLib
cordova.system.library.1=com.android.support:support-v4:24.1.1+
cordova.system.library.2=com.google.firebase:firebase-core:11.0.1
cordova.gradle.include.1=cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics/development-build.gradle
cordova.system.library.3=com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.0.1
cordova.gradle.include.2=phonegap-plugin-push/development-push.gradle
cordova.system.library.4=com.android.support:support-v13:25.1.0
cordova.system.library.5=me.leolin:ShortcutBadger:1.1.17@aar
cordova.system.library.6=com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:11.0.1
cordova.gradle.include.3=phonegap-plugin-push/staging-push.gradle

Obviously there could be errors from manually switching out the required library, but as it was changing the patch version from a + to a 1 I didn't see it causing any issues.

Either way, I haven't managed to get to the bottom of this problem yet. Only way to see if it is because of conflicts is to create a blank app with the plugin and test separately.

[freddiescott]

@CookieCookson Have you found a solution to this one yet, this is now happening for me too.

[CookieCookson]

@qbix0r @freddiescott It seems the data does make it eventually, but does not send as frequently as the iOS version. After checking my stats on the production version of my app I am getting android data reporting coming through in the reports and it matches up with my user counts etc.

[CookieCookson]

I'll close this issue for now as I am not certain this is an issue with the plugin as such, but how/when the firebase SDK itself sends its data to the server.