Android Firebase DynamiteModule: Failed to load module descriptor

Since upgrading to the newest version of Firebase (9.0.0), I can't get rid of the following two errors when authenticating a user through signInWithEmailAndPassword(). Does anyone have an idea what's going on?

    05-19 18:09:49.245 23550-23589/[PACKAGE] E/DynamiteModule: Failed to load 
    module descriptor class: Didn't find class 
    "com.google.android.gms.dynamite.descriptors.com.google.firebase.auth.ModuleDescriptor" 
on path: DexPathList[[zip file 
"/data/app/[PACKAGE]-3/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=
[/data/app/[PACKAGE]-3/lib/x86, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]

And

    05-19 18:09:49.252 23550-23550/[PACKAGE] E/FirebaseApp: Firebase API 
initialization failure.java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
                                                                             
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.zza(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.zzbu(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(Unknown Source)
      at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1748)
      at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1723)
      at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.attachInfo(Unknown Source)
                                                                                   
(...)    
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: The method 'java.io.File android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat.getNoBackupFilesDir(android.content.Context)' was expected to be of type virtual but instead was found to be of type direct (declaration of 'com.google.firebase.iid.zzg' appears in /data/data/[PACKAGE]/files/instant-run/dex/slice-com.google.firebase-firebase-iid-9.0.0_95503dc60ed409569d1585da411de93e6c633bf7-classes.dex)
      at com.google.firebase.iid.zzg.zzeC(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.iid.zzg.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.iid.zzg.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.iid.zzd.zzb(Unknown Source)
      at com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceId.getInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.zza(Unknown Source) 
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Unknown Source) 
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Unknown Source) 
      at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.zzbu(Unknown Source)  
      at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(Unknown Source) 
      at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1748) 
      at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1723) 
      at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.attachInfo(Unknown Source) 

(...)
 

I had the same problem and I found a mistake done by me in my Firebase console.

One of the reason for this problem could be, your Sign In Method inside Firebase > Auth Dashboard might be disabled.

I just enabled it and it started working.

Can you check your Google Play Services version?

From Firebase oficial website:

Prerequisites

• An Android device running Google Play services 9.0.0 or later
• The Google Play services SDK from the Android SDK Manager
• Android Studio 1.5 or higher
• An Android Studio project and its package name.

Very sad that Firebase initialization errors are so not straightforward, so developers need to guess what went wrong. In my case I imported only:

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:10.2.0'

and forgot to import also core:

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:10.2.0'

Maybe it will help someone, good luck!

I found the issue. The issue was the first prerequisite Guilherme mentioned, but not the boldfaced part.. Although your dependencies also need to explicitly state 9.+ of the play services part, the devices itself also needs to have 9.+ installed. Debugging on my phone works fine and updating the image of my emulator solves the issue there as well.

Disabling Instant Run worked for me. Sounds ridiculous, I know. I tried cleaning the project. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the app. The thing that finally did the trick was disabling Instant Run. sigh

I logged out and then logged in and it solved this problem for me.

Probably from some kind of synchronization the FB stuff have not implemented.

If this problem consist I will try to intercept it. But reallly, this is a bug in Firebase system. And It is a bug that is caused by more than one use case, which is another issue on its own.

This answer on another question made my app authenticate

Alfonso Gomez Jordana Manas

Hello Pierre,

You have to manually whitelist your existing Google OAuth 2.0 client IDs in the Firebase console before using it with the new Auth APIs.

In order to do so, follow these steps:

• Go to the Credentials section in the Google API Console.

• Select from the top right corner the project where you had previously configured Google Sign-In.

• Go to the OAuth 2.0 client IDs section If you are using Google Sign-In on Android or iOS applications: Take note of the Client ID string corresponding to all the entries registered for your applications.

• Input these Client IDs into your Firebase project’s configuration:

• Go to the Firebase console at https://console.firebase.google.com

• Open the Auth section

  Under Sign-In methods, open the Google configuration, and add all your client IDs to the whitelist of client IDs from external projects. If you are using Google Sign-In on a web application: Click to open your web client ID and take note of both the client ID and secret. Input this Client ID into your Firebase project’s configuration: Go to the Firebase console at https://console.firebase.google.com Open the Auth section Under Sign-In methods, open the Google configuration, and add the values under the Web SDK configuration section.

Let me know if this resolves your issue.

You can check out while adding google sign in option Before we use

GoogleSignInOptions gso = new GoogleSignInOptions
                    .Builder(GoogleSignInOptions.DEFAULT_SIGN_IN)
                    .requestEmail()
                    .build();

add one line as show in the following code

GoogleSignInOptions gso = new GoogleSignInOptions
                .Builder(GoogleSignInOptions.DEFAULT_SIGN_IN)
                .requestIdToken(getString(R.string.default_web_client_id))
                .requestEmail()
                .build();

after adding this if you get the error like

An internal error has occured. [ Invalid Idp Response: id_token audience mismatch. ]

then Click here to get solution this works for me.

If you just want to use the Firebase authentication and you got here because of the error:

> Didn't find class > "com.google.android.gms.dynamite.descriptors.com.google.firebase.auth.ModuleDescriptor"

Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/project/[your project]/authentication/providers and enable the authentication providers you support.

I had similar issue with signup the user but finally found a working solution.

Uninstall the HAXM and reinstall it solves my issue and it successfully signup's the user to firebase auth :)

if you do everything but you got nothing try to update your ARM EABI.

> Google APIs ARM EABI v7a System Image

If your emulator has not new goggle updates you will get always auth error.

Do everything suggested in this post then update ARM EABI image. This solved my problem.

It may also happen when you don't have the SHA1 fingerprints registered in Firebase and in Google API. There in both of them must register two fingerprints: from the debug keystore and from the production keystore (generated when you create the project's apk for the first time when you enter some password keys on Android Studio).

Here shows how to get the SHA1 from there.

or run this command on C:\Users\<user name>\.android directory.

keytool -list -v -keystore debug.keystore

Sharing my experience: I faced the same issue, I googled everywhere but couldn't find the exact answer, even if I was doing everything as documented by Google Android documentation. Suddenly after a day, my app was working fine and at that same moment I got the email from google stating "Google APIs Explorer connected to your Google Account". And it looks to me that google takes time to grant us access, just wait for this email, maybe this issue is not related to bad code.