cordova-plugin-firebase: Error: Found item String/google_app_id more than one time

Breaking change in the new tag: “cordova-plugin-firebase”: “^0.1.24”,

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:mergeReleaseResources’.

/Users/zoltan/Developer/myProject/platforms/android/res/values/strings.xml: Error: Found item String/google_app_id more than one time

The content of strings.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<resources>
    <string name="app_name">My app name</string>
    <string name="launcher_name">@string/app_name</string>
    <string name="activity_name">@string/launcher_name</string>
    <string name="google_app_id">xxxxxxx---xxxxxxx</string>
    <string name="google_api_key">xxxxxxx---xxxxxxx</string>
    <string name="google_app_id">@string/google_app_id</string>
    <string name="google_api_key">@string/google_api_key</string>
</resources>

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 23 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Remove this in strings.xml

<string name="google_app_id">Your API ID</string>
<string name="google_api_key">Your API KEY</string>
<string name="google_app_id">@string/google_app_id</string>
<string name="google_api_key">@string/google_api_key</string>

Work for me

+13

stephdgenius on Nov 3, 2017

Updating strings.xml or any file created during the build is not a solution it is a workaround of an issue. We need reliable repeatable builds without manually having to update files.

petemcwilliams on Nov 29, 2017

I made a change to the cordova-plugin-firebase/scripts/after_prepare.js so that both ios and android get copied if they both exist.

if (directoryExists(IOS_DIR)) {
    copyKey(PLATFORM.IOS);
}

if (directoryExists(ANDROID_DIR)) {
    copyKey(PLATFORM.ANDROID, updateStringsXml);
}

rabinski99 on Oct 20, 2017

I removed and re-added android platform, the error( Found item String/google_app_id more than one time) disappeared.

cordova platform rm android cordova platform add android

vijeth-ag on Jan 4, 2018

$ cordova clean android worked here

igorPhelype on Oct 18, 2017

To reproduce the issue:

delete the plugins, and platform folder
add the platform android
add the platform ios
try to build the android version

The problem is, that if the ios platform added, then the after_prepare file runs again. Also it tries:

    copyKey(PLATFORM.IOS);
} else if (directoryExists(ANDROID_DIR)) {
    copyKey(PLATFORM.ANDROID, updateStringsXml)
}

So the copyKey(PLATFORM.ANDROID, updateStringsXml) runs, it copies the keys, then in the function exception happens, so the callback function won’t be called.

zerdos on Aug 28, 2017

I faced same problem too in 0.1.24. ~And this problem occurs only release build.~ I don’t have another plugin that is also adding google_app_id and google_api_key.

falcon8823 on Aug 28, 2017