Android dependency 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-stats' has different version for the compile (16.0.1) and runtime (17.0.0) classpath

Question

Yesterday my app was building correctly and today without changing anything I'm not able to build anymore, I'm getting this error:

Android dependency 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-stats' has >different version for the compile (16.0.1) and runtime (17.0.0) >classpath. You should manually set the same version via >DependencyResolution

I tried to bypass this with "com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin.config.disableVersionCheck = true" and clean the project many times, but the error is still here.

My app/build.gradle file :

apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: "io.fabric"

import com.android.build.OutputFile

project.ext.react = [
    entryFile: "index.js"
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"

/**
 * Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:
 *   - An APK that only works on ARM devices
 *   - An APK that only works on x86 devices
 * The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.
 * Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download
 * the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device.
 */
def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false

/**
 * Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
 */
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

android {
    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
    buildToolsVersion rootProject.ext.buildToolsVersion

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.yapero"
        minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
        targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
        multiDexEnabled true
        versionCode 743
        versionName "1.74"
        ndk {
            abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
        }
        versionNameSuffix '3'
    }
    splits {
        abi {
            reset()
            enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
            universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
            include "armeabi-v7a", "x86", "arm64-v8a"
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        }
    }
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/main.kotlin_module'
        exclude 'META-INF/-no-jdk.kotlin_module'
    }
    dexOptions {
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
    }
    // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
            // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
            def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2, "arm64-v8a": 3]
            def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
            if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
                output.versionCodeOverride =
                        versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
            }
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation project(':@segment_analytics-react-native')
    implementation project(':react-native-webview')
    implementation project(':react-native-version-check')
    implementation project(':react-native-firebase')
    implementation(project(':react-native-firebase')) {   
       transitive = false
   }
    implementation('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.5@aar') {transitive = true}
    //implementation project(':react-native-version-check')
    implementation project(':react-native-maps')
    implementation project(':react-native-intercom')
    implementation 'io.intercom.android:intercom-sdk-base:5.+'
    implementation 'io.intercom.android:intercom-sdk-fcm:5.+'
    implementation project(':react-native-fbsdk')
    implementation project(':react-native-device-info')
    implementation project(':react-native-appsflyer')
    implementation project(':react-native-text-input-reset')
    implementation project(':react-native-linear-gradient')
    implementation project(':react-native-fast-image')
    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${rootProject.ext.supportLibVersion}"
    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:16.1.0"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.8"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.2.1"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore:17.1.5"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.5.0"
    implementation 'me.leolin:ShortcutBadger:1.1.21@aar'
    implementation 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.compile
    into 'libs'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

My build.gradle:

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "28.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 16
        compileSdkVersion = 28
        targetSdkVersion = 27
        supportLibVersion = "28.0.0"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'
        classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.25.4'
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
        }
    }
}


task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '4.7'
    distributionUrl = distributionUrl.replace("bin", "all")
}

Does someone know how to correct or bypass this version check ? Ask me if you need more informations.

Answer 1

This comment on github provides the answer to your question (and mine):

A dependency (react-native-device-info in this case) was using the latest version of one of its dependencies instead of a fixed/pinned version. When a new version of google services was released yesterday, it caused the build to pull in the new version for device-info, thereby causing the conflict with other dependencies that correctly pin the version they need.

The solution is to do what is explained in the linked post in your android/app/build.gradle:

implementation(project(":react-native-device-info"),  {
  exclude group: "com.google.android.gms"
})
implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:16.0.0"

and possibly replace react-native-device-info with any other dependency that may have the same problem (they would include a line like implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:+" which depends on whatever is the latest version of google gcm).