Getting phone number on Android 14 fails with: Didn't find class "com.google.android.gms.auth.api.credentials.HintRequest$Builder"

[pke]

A red error box is displayed when trying to read the devices phone number:

AndroidSms VerificationApi.requestPhone

Failed resolution of: Lcom/google/android/gms/ auth/api/credentials/HintRequest$Builder;

Didn't find class "com.google.android.gms.auth.api.credentials.HintRequest$Builder"

The app becomes unresponsive for some time (30 secs) and then the red dialog disappears by itself. Sometimes the system popup with the correct phone number appears nonetheless then but tapping OK in the dialog leads to an app crash.

I assume this has something to do with the bundles Google Playstore APIs?

Might be related: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/releases#february_15_2024

[jgkiano]

Maybe downgrading the play-services version will work until it's patched with Credential Manager. You could try forcing it to use a previous version, lmk

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:17.0.0'
        force 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone:17.4.0'
    }
}

[pke]

This leads to a different error

[jgkiano]

I think HintRequest is too old as the pending intent is coming from that class. I've removed the deprecated class usages, lmk if v1.0.10-beta works. Remove the resolutionStrategy.

[pke]

Works on Android 14 (using v.1.0.10-beta.1)🎉! Shall I try on other Android versions? Or is this a back compatible API when using the proper minSDK and playstore API bundles?

[jgkiano]

Amazing! thanks for testing, please confirm on other android versions if you have access, it should be back compatible. Once you confirm i'll move this to npm stable.