The appDistributionUploadRelease task fails with dependency configuration error

[varahash]

If you run appDistributionUploadRelease task with processReleaseGoogleServices in single command, it fails with following error (see bellow)

Used components:

• Gradle 9.2.1
• AGP 8.13.1
• App Distribution plugin 5.2.0
• Google Play services plugin 4.4.4

NOTE: We actually do not run processReleaseGoogleServices explicitly, but instead have another task which depends on it, but here I presented simple reproducer.

% ./gradlew processReleaseGoogleServices appDistributionUploadRelease

> Task :app:appDistributionUploadRelease FAILED

[Incubating] Problems report is available at: file:///Users/user/Projects/DemoApp/build/reports/problems/problems-report.html

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem was found with the configuration of task ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' (type 'UploadDistributionTask').
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/Users/user/Projects/DemoApp/app/build/generated/res/processReleaseGoogleServices'.
    
    Reason: Task ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' uses this output of task ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Declare task ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' as an input of ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease'.
      2. Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' from ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' using Task#dependsOn.
      3. Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' from ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' using Task#mustRunAfter.
    
    For more information, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/9.2.1/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency in the Gradle documentation.

* Try:
> Declare task ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' as an input of ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease'
> Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' from ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' using Task#dependsOn
> Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:processReleaseGoogleServices' from ':app:appDistributionUploadRelease' using Task#mustRunAfter
> Run with --scan to generate a Build Scan (powered by Develocity).

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BUILD FAILED in 509ms

[varahash]

Current workaround is:

afterEvaluate {
    tasks.matching { it.name.startsWith("appDistributionUpload") }.configureEach { uploadTask ->
        def variantName = uploadTask.name.replace("appDistributionUpload", "")
        def googleServicesTaskName = "process${variantName}GoogleServices"
        def googleServicesTask = tasks.matching { it.name == googleServicesTaskName }
        uploadTask.dependsOn(googleServicesTask)
    }
}

[lehcar09]

Hi @varahash, thank you for raising this issue. I was able to reproduce the error and use the code snippet you shared to workaround on the issue. I'll raise this to our engineers and see what we can do here. Thanks!

[kaibolay]

Thanks for the report! This is fixed for App Distribution plugin 5.2.1.

Unfortunately I don't know when this will be released, but it'll hopefully be soon. Until then, please rely on your work-around.