google-services:4.3.9 breaks firebase

[ColtonIdle]

Android app

My root build.gradle.kts contains

    dependencies {
        classpath("com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.8")

I updated today com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.8 to com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.9 and my android app crashes on launch now due to firebase.

2021-08-06 22:30:10.671 13469-13469/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.rollertoaster.app.free, PID: 13469
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {com.rollertoaster.app.free/com.rollertoaster.app.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process com.rollertoaster.app.free. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4205)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4237)
        at android.app.servertransaction.ResumeActivityItem.execute(ResumeActivityItem.java:52)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeLifecycleState(TransactionExecutor.java:176)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:97)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
     Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process com.rollertoaster.app.free. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
        at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.getInstance(FirebaseApp.java:183)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.FirebasePerformance.getInstance(FirebasePerformance.java:132)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.FirebasePerformanceInitializer.onAppColdStart(FirebasePerformanceInitializer.java:29)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.application.AppStateMonitor.sendAppColdStartUpdate(AppStateMonitor.java:274)
        at com.google.firebase.perf.application.AppStateMonitor.onActivityResumed(AppStateMonitor.java:195)
        at android.app.Application.dispatchActivityResumed(Application.java:436)
        at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResumed(Activity.java:1265)
        at android.app.Activity.onResume(Activity.java:1789)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1446)
        at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:7939)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4195)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:4237) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.ResumeActivityItem.execute(ResumeActivityItem.java:52) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeLifecycleState(TransactionExecutor.java:176) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:97) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930) 

If I revert back from .9 to .8, then everything works again.

Not sure if it's a firebase issue or a google-services issue, but I figured I'd be proactive.

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[Vivecstel]

Same here. Reverted back to previous version.

[DDR13GIT]

I have lost precious 6 hours of my life for this problem -.-
reverted back to .8

[juanlabrador]

Last night I didn't understand what happened, until compare with another project. :( I lost much time

[carlonzo]

for what I can see in my project, the plugin does not generate the resources in the app/build/generated/res/google-services/<buildtype>/values/values.xml file required by the SDK out of the google-services.json

[koaidev]

same error! what is solution ?

[aguatno]

It looks like the 4.3.9 is having multiple issues. The official docs still say 4.3.8, so I'd suggest reverting back to .8 for now. Thanks

[naveensingh]

Got the same problem today after updating google-services to 4.3.9. Reverting to 4.3.8 fixes the initialization.

W/FirebaseApp: Default FirebaseApp failed to initialize because no default options were found. This usually means that com.google.gms:google-services was not applied to your gradle project.

[inv-jithin]

Got the same error. Is there any solution for this