🐛 [firebase-config] Unknown permission `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

[Zazo032]

Bug report

Describe the bug Some Firebase plugin is probably declaring this permission internally, and according to Manifest Merger:

        ADDED from [com.google.firebase:firebase-config:21.1.1] <elided>\.gradle\caches\transforms-3\bfc29b0b0c8e604f1d064799fd671377\transformed\firebase-config-21.1.1\AndroidManifest.xml:33:17-117
uses-permission#com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Change target sdk version to Android 13
2. Include some Firebase plugins
3. Upload to Play Store

Expected behavior

We're not using any Advertising ID, so it shouldn't be added automatically

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Additional context

This is a blocker to publish updates with an app targeting Android 13 and using Firebase plugins

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[deepak786]

It seems that this permission is added automatically by the firebase analytics SDK https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android#analytics_v20-1-1

But I don't know about the firebase_config.

[darshankawar]

@Zazo032 Please check below links for further details and see if they help further:

https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/android/dai/android-12 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6048248

[Zazo032]

Those articles were not very helpful, since they always refer to the Google Mobile Ads SDK, but we're not using it. We're using the following Firebase plugins

firebase_analytics: ^9.3.0
firebase_core: ^1.20.0
firebase_crashlytics: ^2.8.6
firebase_performance: ^0.8.2+1

[darshankawar]

This most probably belongs upstream. See similar issue open : https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/2582 I suggest you to follow-up in that issue for further updates. Closing from here, as this doesn't seem to be actionable from Flutterfire.