Can not Link/Connect Android Studio with Firebase

Question

I have been trying to connect Android studio 4.1 with Firebase but it is not getting linked. I followed the instruction given on the firebase website like copying the dependencies, plugins, etc. into the app Gradle build and Project Gradle Build. My Gradle version is 6.5 and Gradle plugin is 4.1. The Error shown is:

org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.TupleExpression cannot be cast to org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.ArgumentListExpression

org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.TupleExpression cannot be cast to org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.ArgumentListExpression Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.) Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)

The state of a Gradle build process (daemon) may be corrupt. Stopping all Gradle daemons may solve this problem.

Stop Gradle build processes (requires restart)

Your project may be using a third-party plugin which is not compatible with the other plugins in the project or the version of Gradle requested by the project. In the case of corrupt Gradle processes, you can also try closing the IDE and then killing all Java processes.

Answer 1

I believe i found the problem. If you use

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

to your build.gradle(module) like its instructed you get this error.

Instead change apply plugin to id

id 'com.google.gms.google-services'

I haven't finish the app but when I sync, it's successful

Answer 2

Using the Firebase guide to link my app with Firebase, the problem is that you have to scatter the plugins by these 2 ways of implementation:

//First way to implement plugins
plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
    id 'kotlin-android'
}

//Second way to implement plugins
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Taking out the apply plugin ones from the {} of plugins solved my link issues ;)