Question: Can we remove google play service as dependency for android?

[shripalsoni04]

First of all 👍 for this very useful plugin.

I noticed that, full library of google play service is included as dependency in platforms/android/include.gradlefile and due to this, the compile time is getting increased of the app and getting error of DexIndexOverflowException. (I know we have solution now of adding multiDexEnabled true)

I tried to compile the project after removing compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.0" from include.gradle (after removing android platform and then re-adding android platform), and the firebase functionalities are working without any issue.

So my question is, do we require full library of google play service as dependency in our app and if we require it, can we add only the required google play service api as dependency to reduce compile time?

You can check all the apis of google play service from here: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#add_google_play_services_to_your_project

[a-v-zheng]

original idea! May be fetch() and http.getJSON() methods will work in this case? #42

[shripalsoni04]

@zhengiko I don't know whether it is related to this or not, but I tried to copy the code of fetch() and http.getJSON() mentioned at #42 in my project which doesn't have dependency com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.0 included. Both the code are logging proper JSON data on console while testing on my android phone.

[EddyVerbruggen]

The play services lib is required for reading google-services.json which contains the Firebase configuration. I previously included the entire library (as documented by Firebase), but I found out that we only need the 'core' bit by default as can be seen here.

Perhaps you were able to compile without it because you didn't remove and re-add the Android platform afterwards?