cordova and firebase nightmare (working from default quasar v1beta app)

[daithi]

Hi all,

I’ve been trying to get firebase working with quasar cordova. My main reason is to get uniqueID for each app downloaded that I can use for authenticating with an api… and of course analytics.

My head is melted. Apparently Google broke Google march last year and now proper versioning between google & google no longer works, for just over a year?

Stack:

• Debian 9 stretch
• Gradle 5.4.1
• Quasar 1.0.0-beta-25 (same with issues with 0.17.13)
• OpenJDK 1.8.0_212

The app is the default quasar create... and no changes are made to it. Also I remove src-cordova and start from scratch with each of the bellow attempts.

So in research it seems there’s two ways to setup firebase:

1. Follow google instructions in firebase when setting up account. Probably expected to fail as we’re not building a native app
2. Use cordova-firebase-plugin

Using google instructions results in:

Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.9] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

After research seems this is an error because of old gradle version. I’ve updated to 5.4.1, so implementation() should now work, but it doesn’t. Get same error. Is there an internal gradle used by quasar or cordova?

Cleaning up before next test:

rm -rf src-cordova
quasar mode add cordova
quasar dev -m cordova -T android # check if default app loads 

This time trying cordova-plugin-firebase:
From here: https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase and either placing the xml element in config.xml or by using cordova cli the result is the same:

* What went wrong:
Failed to capture fingerprint of input files for task ':app:preDebugBuild' property 'compileManifests' during up-to-date check.
> The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[16.5.0,16.5.0], [16.4.0,16.4.0]], but resolves to 16.5.0. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

Reading through the docs there is a recommendation to try (in this order):

1. cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
2. cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release

The play services plugin (1 above) produces same error as cordova-plugin-firebase but notice the versions requested and found in the error are different:

...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                  
| cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release: 15.+              
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
...
* What went wrong:
Failed to capture fingerprint of input files for task ':app:preDebugBuild' property 'compileManifests' during up-to-date check.
> The library com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-base is being requested by various other libraries at [[15.0.2,15.0.2]], but resolves to 15.0.4. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

On to cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release and the error is the same as above with stdout reporting:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------
| cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release: 15.+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
| cordova-android-firebase-gradle-release: 15.+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------

I’ve tried mutliple delete and re-install to get this working and lost. Is it possible to hook quasar cordova and firebase together? Has anybody got this working?

[daithi]

created a bug report on cordova-plugin-firebase https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase/issues/1066

[ahiguita]

HI @daithi, did you fix this issue?

[gaguerrero]

Hi!, any news about the fix?

[dobbel]

@gaguerrero

Firebase oauth is banned from webview apps(cordova).
https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/modernizing-oauth-interactions-in-native-apps.html

The cordova plugin is abandoned
https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase/issues/1135

But maybe there is hope:
https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-plugin-firebasex