Support play-services-auth library (v21.0.0)

[wangerekaharun]

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Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android device: Pixel 6 Pro
• Android OS version: Android 14
• Google Play Services version: 21.1.0
• Firebase/Play Services SDK version: 21.1.1
• FirebaseUI version: 8.0.2

Step 3: Describe the problem:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Update the play-services-auth version on an app using Firebase UI
2. Run the app, it crashes due to the breaking changes added on the play-services-auth 21.1.0 version: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/releases#february_15_2024

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Observed Results:

• What happened? This could be a description, logcat output, etc. Crashes with this exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/google/android/gms/auth/api/credentials/CredentialsOptions$Builder;at com.firebase.ui.auth.util.GoogleApiUtils.getCredentialsClient(GoogleApiUtils.java:29) 

at com.firebase.ui.auth.viewmodel.AuthViewModelBase.onCreate(AuthViewModelBase.java:30)
at com.firebase.ui.auth.viewmodel.ViewModelBase.init(ViewModelBase.java:24)
at com.firebase.ui.auth.KickoffActivity.onCreate(KickoffActivity.java:38)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8051)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8031)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1329)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3608)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3792)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:103)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2210)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7839)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.google.android.gms.auth.api.credentials.CredentialsOptions$Builder" on path: DexPathList[[dex file "/data/data/com.mfhc.firebasetest/code_cache/.overlay/base.apk/classes3.dex", zip file "/data/app/~~crZRGUM9m8NR4vzMFc5fFw==/com.mfhc.firebasetest-oesX28d7C_VTSFzoRDt6Gg==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/~~crZRGUM9m8NR4vzMFc5fFw==/com.mfhc.firebasetest-oesX28d7C_VTSFzoRDt6Gg==/lib/x86_64, /system/lib64, /system_ext/lib64]]

dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:218)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)

Expected Results:

• What did you expect to happen?

Firebae UI Auth Should continue to work as expected with the new play-services-auth version

Relevant Code:

Update to latest play-services-auth version

[tlozovyi]

I have exactly same problem

[jonsmirl]

Same problem.