Crash on Google Play Pre-Launch Report: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

Getting some very odd behaviour on my Google Play Pre-Launch report, and it's only just started occurring, but I can't pin it down to anything I have changed. I also can't reproduce the issue myself.

Every test device seems to be failing in the pre-launch report (6/6 devices all fail the same way). However repeating the steps on the same build on a real device, I can never recreate it. The stack trace is as follows:

FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-8
Process: uk.myapp.test, PID: 25312
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method createWithResource(Landroid/content/res/Resources;Ljava/lang/String;I)Landroidx/core/graphics/drawable/IconCompat; in class Landroidx/core/graphics/drawable/IconCompat; or its super classes (declaration of 'androidx.core.graphics.drawable.IconCompat' appears in base.apk)
    at androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat$Action.<init>(NotificationCompat.java:4572)
    at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.PlayerNotificationManager.createPlaybackActions(PlayerNotificationManager.java:1439)
    at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.PlayerNotificationManager.<init>(PlayerNotificationManager.java:757)
    at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.PlayerNotificationManager$Builder.build(PlayerNotificationManager.java:564)
    at uk.myapp.test.AudioPlayerService.onCreate(AudioPlayerService.java:96)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3570)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:200)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1672)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
    at androidx.test.espresso.base.Interrogator.loopAndInterrogate(Interrogator.java:10)
    at androidx.test.espresso.base.UiControllerImpl.loopUntil(UiControllerImpl.java:7)
    at androidx.test.espresso.base.UiControllerImpl.loopUntil(UiControllerImpl.java:1)
    at androidx.test.espresso.base.UiControllerImpl.injectMotionEvent(UiControllerImpl.java:5)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.MotionEvents.sendUp(MotionEvents.java:6)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.MotionEvents.sendUp(MotionEvents.java:1)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.Tap.sendSingleTap(Tap.java:5)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.Tap.-$$Nest$smsendSingleTap(Unknown Source:0)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.Tap$1.sendTap(Tap.java:1)
    at androidx.test.espresso.action.GeneralClickAction.perform(GeneralClickAction.java:4)
    at androidx.test.espresso.ViewInteraction$SingleExecutionViewAction.perform(ViewInteraction.java:2)
    at androidx.test.espresso.ViewInteraction.doPerform(ViewInteraction.java:21)
    at androidx.test.espresso.ViewInteraction.-$$Nest$mdoPerform(Unknown Source:0)
    at androidx.test.espresso.ViewInteraction$1.call(ViewInteraction.java:2)
    at androidx.test.espresso.ViewInteraction$1.call(ViewInteraction.java:1)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:873)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6718)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)

Answer 1

Not exactly sure but I think it's an issue with the Robo tests that Firebase test lab uses. I haven't tried using their instrumented tests instead, but it's the only explanation I can currently think of.

Answer 2

I implemented reverting the Firebase BOM version like the other answer suggested, but it didn't (or at least didn't fully resolve) the issue for me. Reverting this other dependency finished solving it for me:

Crashing version:

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:19.0.1'

Working version:

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:18.0.0'