Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError com.google.android.gms.internal.firebase-perf.zzw

Question

Getting this Error on app launch.

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.google.android.gms.internal.firebase-perf.zzw at com.google.firebase.perf.metrics.Trace.start(Unknown Source) at com.google.android.gms.internal.firebase-perf.zze.onActivityStarted(Unknown Source) at android.app.Application.dispatchActivityStarted(Application.java:205) at android.app.Activity.onStart(Activity.java:1156) at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onStart(Unknown Source) at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.onStart(Unknown Source) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1268) at android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:6333) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2542) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2671) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1501) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:111) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5774) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:791) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:681)

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public'
        }
        google()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.0'
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-plugins:1.1.5'
        classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.24.4'


        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
    }
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
        google()
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

//

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-crash'
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
// Create a variable called keystorePropertiesFile, and initialize it to your
// keystore.properties file, in the rootProject folder.
def keystorePropertiesFile = rootProject.file("keystore.properties")

// Initialize a new Properties() object called keystoreProperties.
def keystoreProperties = new Properties()

// Load your keystore.properties file into the keystoreProperties object.
keystoreProperties.load(new FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))

android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    buildToolsVersion "27.0.3"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.abc.xyz"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 27
        versionCode 18
        versionName "1.9"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
    }

//Signing configurations for build variants "release"
    signingConfigs {
        release {
            keyAlias keystoreProperties['keyAlias']
            keyPassword keystoreProperties['keyPassword']
            storeFile file(keystoreProperties['storeFile'])
            storePassword keystoreProperties['storePassword']
        }
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled true
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.2'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'
    compile 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:2.2.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-urlconnection:3.4.1'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.5.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:27.1.1'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:16.0.1'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.3.0'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-config:16.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:15.0.1'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:15.0.1'
    compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.0.3'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.1'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:16.1.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-places:15.0.1'

 compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.7.1@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-perf'

Answer 1

Firebase-crash version and firebase-perf version must be lesser than or equal to the Firebase-core version so In your code just change the Firebase-crash:16.0.1 version to Firebase-crash:16.0.0 and firebase-perf:16.1.0 version to firebase-perf:16.0.0 Because your's firebase-core version is 16.0.1

   compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:16.0.0'
   compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:16.0.0'

Answer 2

I had the same problem, although Siva Kumar's solution worked, what also worked for me was to use the latest google-services library on your project build.gradle :

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.1.0'
}

Answer 3

For me none of the other solutions worked. Very frustrating, the application didn't even start. Finally I removed Performance Monitoring:

//apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-perf'
//implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:16.1.2'