Firebase Crashlytics NDK unstripped files - firebase

I have an SDK that uses C++ code. The SDK exports 4 different modules in a maven repo that I publish on either a local maven repo or on GitHub packages.
The apps that consume the SDK should be able to use Firebase Crashlytics and get reports of crashes in the native code as well.
The first problem I have is that I need to provide to the Firebase plugin the folders unstrippedNativeLibsDir and strippedNativeLibsDir:
firebaseCrashlytics {
nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true
unstrippedNativeLibsDir "???"
strippedNativeLibsDir "???"
}
If I go to the project where I build the SDK I can see: build/intermediates/merged_native_libs/release and build/intermediates/stripped_native_libs.
Are these the unstripped and stripped folder respectively?
Is there any documentation about what exactly those folders are supposed to contain?
Anyway if I configure the app firebaseCrashlytics to point to these folders I still need to fix another issue.
I get:
Crashlytics could not find NDK build tasks on which to depend. You many need to manually enforce task dependencies
It looks like since I'm building the libs that use the NDK in another project, then the Firebase plugin does not work.
What am I supposed to do?
Is it possible to get the Crashlytics NDK working even if I build the libraries independently with a separate project?

The only way I made it work was to build the libraries along with the app. The libraries were in separate repos anyway but I included them as sub-repositories in the app.
In this way, you solve the issue of not finding NDK build tasks on which to depend.
I know this is not the answer though

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Crashlytics could not find the resource file generated by Google Services

Crashlytics could not find the resource file generated by Google Services.You may need to execute the :processGoogleServices Task
i read the solution from this qusetion Crashlytics could not find the resource file generated by Google Services. You may need to execute the :process<Variant>GoogleServices Task
but i didn't succeded to run this command in my unity project
./gradlew :app:processProdReleaseGoogleServices or ./gradlew :app:processDevReleaseGoogleServices
how can i run it?
A tricky bit with the Unity SDK is that because Firebase still supports versions of Unity that predate a total move to gradle (I believe 2019.4 is when Unity switched over entirely, the earliest supported version right now is 2017.4), many Android specific solutions (such as the one you linked) won't function. If you did want to try it, you can select "Export Project" in your build settings -- but I don't think this will help:
It sounds instead like you're missing Plugins/Android/FirebaseApp.androidlib or Plugins/Android/FirebaseCrashlytics.androidlib. These are generated by the Firebase plugins (obviously FirebaseCrashlytics.androidlib is specific to Crashlytics -- you won't see that one otherwise) as part of a processing step to simulate what the Play Services gradle plugin would do in a typical Android application or game.
Some things to try:
Make sure you're on a supported version of Unity (2017.4 or newer -- Firebase does not officially support alphas or betas).
Ensure that you have a valid google-services.json file added and that Crashlytics has been added to your backend (full instructions here to redownload).
Re-add FirebaseCrashlytics and ensure that you leave everything checked.
Ensure that you have the latest Crashlytics plugin (currently 7.1.0). You can download just Crashlytics now from this site, but make sure you don't mix and match versions with other Firebase plugins.
And if none of these work, sometimes small changes in build environments expose unexpected issues. Your best bet will be to file an issue here with everything you've tried.

Issues embedding Firebase inside other framework

We have our own swift framework REFFramework that is using carthage to import Firebase (analytics and firestore). This is the cartfile in REFFramework:
binary "https://dl.google.com/dl/firebase/ios/carthage/FirebaseAnalyticsBinary.json"
binary "https://dl.google.com/dl/firebase/ios/carthage/FirebaseFirestoreBinary.json"
The REFFramework is used in the app also using carthage to import it.
In addition the app itself also imports other modules from firebase (remote config).
This is the cartfile of the app:
git ".../REFFramework"
binary "https://dl.google.com/dl/firebase/ios/carthage/FirebaseAnalyticsBinary.json"
binary "https://dl.google.com/dl/firebase/ios/carthage/FirebaseFirestoreBinary.json"
binary "https://dl.google.com/dl/firebase/ios/carthage/FirebaseRemoteConfigBinary.json"
As far as I know carthage is designed to fully support this kind of structure. We use other frameworks also embedded in REFFramework like this such as Alamofire.
However we notice a crash in the app that does not happen when we remove the Firebase out of the REFFramework.
So it's clearly todo with the embedding of Firebase in an intermediate Framework.
The crash is happening in "0 __pthread_kill", here is a screenshot of the debugger in xCode 10.3:
I see a remark in the documentation:
Note that the Firebase frameworks in the distribution include static libraries. While it is fine to link these into apps, it will generally not work to depend on them from wrapper dynamic frameworks.
Not sure if this is releated to this issue?
Yep, the Firebase Carthage frameworks include static libraries and can only be linked to other static library frameworks.

Cannot find com.google.android.gms.common.internal.safeparcel.AbstractSafeParcelable class

My build.gradle is:
// for facebook account kit
compile 'com.facebook.android:account-kit-sdk:4.+'
// for google firebase database
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.6.0'
// for google firebase cloud messaging
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:9.6.0'
After rebuild project,a error happens.
Error:(74, 27) error: Cannot access AbstractSafeParcelable
Cannot find
com.google.android.gms.common.internal.safeparcel.AbstractSafeParcelable class
==============================================
Resolution:
The reason is that after rebuilding the project, gradle download the latest version of "account-kit-sdk" to 4.25.0, the new version changes some about gms, so make some conflicts with firebase messaging,
So I downgrade the account-kit-sdk version, change import version from "account-kit-sdk:4.+" to "account-kit-sdk:4.24.0"
Then the issue has been resolved.
But I think it is not the best resolution about this problem.
Welcome friends add some new ways to resolve this issue.
Thanks.
Version 4.25.0 of com.facebook.android:account-kit-sdk has a dependency on com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone:11.0.1 that is not present in version 4.24.0. com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone adds many transitive dependencies on other com.google.android.gms modules, including base, basement, tasks, auth, and auth-base.
The Firebase libraries also have transitive dependencies on numerous com.google.android.gms modules. If the version numbers of all of the Firebase and Play Services modules in a build are not the same, problems such as this one occur.
A simple solution is to use version 11.0.1 of all Firebase and Play Services libraries you list in your gradle dependencies:
// for google firebase database
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:11.0.1'
// for google firebase cloud messaging
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:11.0.1'
You should also specify a fixed version number for the Facebook library to make your build predictable and repeatable:
compile 'com.facebook.android:account-kit-sdk:4.25.0'
The risk of specifying the version as "4.+" is that when a new version is released that has transitive dependencies on a new version of the Play Services libraries, the new Facebook lib version will be automatically used and your build will break again.
To debug problems like this one, you can open the Gradle window in Android Studio and double-click on :app -> Tasks -> android -> androidDependencies to generate a dependency tree. The tree can then be examined to find version mismatches.

How do I get Android Studio to include resources in a .jar file?

I'm using Unity 5. It still expects java plugins to be a .jar file built with JDK 1.6.
I had this working under Unity 4, but they changed something. Now I get this error while building the apk from Unity:
OBSOLETE - Providing Android resources in Assets/Plugins/Android/res
is deprecated, please move your resources to an Android Library. See
"Building Plugins for Android" section of the Manual.
How do I get AS to put the resources into classes.jar? The "Building Plugins for Android" doesn't mention resources.
Additional information about my project:
The project references Google Play Services, so I need version.xml in there
<integer name="google_play_services_version">6587000</integer>
Which contains the version number for the reference in the Manifest.
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="#integer/google_play_services_version" />
But if I include this file in res/values in my AS library project, it's still output as an xml file in res/values next to the classes.jar.
Incidentally, I'm digging the .jar file out of
/ApplicationName/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/ProjectName/LibararyName/unspecified/classes.jar
after building the project.
First of all, this is a warning and not an error.
Providing resources in Unity in Assets/Plugins/Android/res/ folder is not recommended, because it can cause resource conflicts.
When you provide resources in an Android library, they are correctly merged during build process.
Basically, you have three options:
convert your plugin into an Android library. Or you can init an empty library, add your .jar file to bin/, your resources to res/ (there should be a manifest and android.library=true in project.properties). You can do this by calling android create lib-project (more details)
if you compile your plugin directly using gradle or in Android Studio, you can use .aar file produced, given that you have set your project up as a library (apply plugin: 'com.android.library' in your build.gradle file). Just put it in any folder of your project, it should automatically be detected as Android-only plugin.
continue providing resources in res/ and wait for it to be completely unsupported by Unity.
Hope this helps.

Generate apk file for meteor app

I have a project is working for android browser. Is there a way to generate the apk file?
Also, are there anything that I shoud know before generating the apk file?
There are a few steps to follow in order to generate the Android application file (.apk) from a meteor app:
meteor install-sdk android
Have the mobile-config.js file in your project root (mobile-config.js example)
meteor add-platform android
meteor build ~/your-output-dir --server=yourapp.meteor.com
Then you will have your .apk file in ~/your-output-dir/android/unaligned.apk
If you want to proceed and submit to Google Play Store, here are the steps to follow: https://guide.meteor.com/mobile.html#submitting-android
Hope this helps!
You can build an APK file with meteor build command.
Read more about it in the docs: http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/meteorbuild or by typing meteor help build in your terminal.
Starting with Meteor 1.2, the bundled Android tools have been removed and a system-wide install of the Android SDK is now required. This should make it easier to keep the development toolchain up to date and helps avoid some difficult to diagnose failures. The meteor install-sdk command no longer attempts to download and install the Android tools for you (it has been deprecated and just points you to these instructions).
like imslavko says, meteor build works pretty fine, also if you are looking for more information take a look on this Meteorpedia
It work for me
Reegards
As of now playstore has started giving warning while uploading APK about unoptimised bundle and insisting for uploading Android app bundle.
Insted of generating APK why not generate .aab of your project and reduce size of the application.
For people wondering about how to generate .aab for your existing project can read my blog here:
My blog link

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