Android: Can't link module with Google Play Services - requires desugaring

[grebulon]

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Description

When trying to link a native module that implements push message handling, I get error:
"Dependency 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:18.7.0' requires core library desugaring to be enabled for :app"

Expected Behavior

The app should link to these modules.

Actual behavior

To fix this you need to add two lines to android/templates/build/app.build.gradle:

• Under compileOptions, add: coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true - under
• Under dependencies, add: coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:2.1.5'

    compileOptions {
        coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${project.ext.tiAndroidXAppCompatLibVersion}"
        coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:2.1.5'
        ...

Reproducible sample

Create a native Android module.
Add tuhis to build.gradle:
dependencies {
implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:18.7.0")
}
Add a module dependency to tiapp.xml, and build the app.

Steps to reproduce

Add this to dependencies in build.gradle of one of your native android modules:
implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:18.7.0")

Platform

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SDK version you are using

13.0.1.GA

Alloy version you are using

No response

[m1ga]

Hi @grebulon
you don't need to change the SDK for that and I think it's not play-serivces-base fault as we use that in ti.playservice:
https://github.com/tidev/ti.playservices/blob/master/android/build.gradle
without issues.

When I was testing Androids Navigation API I got the same error message and I've just added

dependencies {
    coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs_nio:2.0.3'
}

android {
	compileOptions {
        coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true
    }
}

in my apps build.gradle file and it I was able to compile it again.

So in my case 'com.google.android.libraries.navigation:navigation:7.2.0' casues that error message.

I'm not sure if we should add that to a global app build.gradle because it's the first time we have this error and I don't know if that would have any side-effects for all other apps out there

[grebulon]

Thanks, this is working for me too.