update google-services.json doesn't update the app

[brianjmurrell]

Describe the bug
When I update google-services.json and then rebuild/install my app, the google services values in my app are not updated to reflect the google-services.json changes.

I have to manually remove:

app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

in order to see the updated values.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Probably pretty obvious.

Expected behavior
If I update google-services.json the next build of my app should include the changed values.

Screenshots
N/A

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Gradle version: I don't really know
• Android Studio version: 3.6.3
• Plugin name and version: firebase?

Additional context
My particular case here is that if my firebase application ID is updated in google-services.json, ./gradlew install[Debug] does not update the application ID in the app.

[Ivy-Walobwa]

I had the same issue and followed your steps. It worked. Thank you. I was getting frustrated.

[brianjmurrell]

@Ivy-Walobwa Glad it worked for you. Shame that this 6 month old bug has not even had a triage comment added to it.

[Awdjr]

When you manually remove that information, what file are you removing that information from? I'm in the android studio and I don't see
app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

[Ivy-Walobwa]

When you manually remove that information, what file are you removing that information from? I'm in the android studio and I don't see
app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

It's under build/app/....

Instead you could run flutter clean

[lzzy12]

I just had Exactly same problem, I uploaded the app on play store with a new firebase project (separate from development project). I thought just replacing google-services.json will do, but I was scratching my head why google sign in is not working even after adding the sha keys from play console. Turns out I added the SHA keys to the firebase project which was not even being used. Had to flutter clean for the change to take effect

[junaid-umar]

Facing the same issue

I Had to remove manually remove:

app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

[HarshCodonnier]

When you manually remove that information, what file are you removing that information from? I'm in the android studio and I don't see
app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

It's under build/app/....

Instead you could run flutter clean

Thanks. flutter clean command work for me.

[abhinavgl98]

I deleted the complete build folder:- app/build

Delete old google-services.json file from these locations:-
app\src\debug\google-services.json
app\src\google-services.json
app\google-services.json

Then add a new google-services.json file under app/
And then it worked for me.

[prithvish111]

app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

Thank you, this helped me.

[ngattusohw]

It is absolutely insane that it has been over a year and this has not been properly addressed.

[travisw88]

Just had to deal with this same issue. A simple clean was able to resolve it fortunately. Firebase Auth UI, Crashlytics, Analytics, none of it was working and this fixed it all in one go.

[jdcaacbay-wp]

Worked great! Thank you very much!

[Sumit112192]

Thanks Man.I Was getting error that the firebase url is not set to the proper location, even though I updated the google-services.json file. Finally was able to retrieve data from the firebase database.

[ernesto]

Omg, I was getting crazy with that issue, thinking I did something wrong, but it was a Firebase problem 🤦

[Necati-Ustun]

Bro you saved me ! thank you

[nikeru8]

You save my day . love u

[DHx64]

In my case these files didn't exist

app/build/generated/res/google-services/debug/values/values.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merger.xml
app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml

So i ran react-native clean, selected all the options and my problem was fixed