I'm setting up an existing app with some of the activity tracking events offered through Google Analytics. I've added all the gradle changes and what not, but I keep getting an error related to having duplicate google_app_ids. I know one of the ids comes from using Google Maps in my app originally. I believe I may have been given a new google_app_id from the one auto generated from the google-services.json file you have to add for Google Analytics. I'm not sure how to fix it.
Here's the error I get when trying to build:
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> [string/google_app_id] C:\Users\smithm24\AndroidStudioProjects\NOAAHSO\app\src\main\res\values\strings.xml [string/google_app_id]
C:\Users\smithm24\AndroidStudioProjects\NOAAHSO\app\build\generated\res\google-services\debug\values\values.xml: Error: Duplicate resources
Here is my values.xml, which is the auto generated file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="ga_trackingId" translatable="false">UA-76597942-1</string>
<string name="gcm_defaultSenderId" translatable="false">287841560662</string>
<string name="google_app_id" translatable="false">1:287841560662:android:18d8b4b538346094</string>
</resources>
Here is my strings.xml with my app id I added a long time ago for Google Maps:
<resources>
<string name="app_name">Weather AND Haul Route</string>
<string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
<string name="button_text">Get Weather</string>
<string name="title_activity_maps">Map</string>
<string name="google_app_id">380060644351</string>
</resources>
You have the same descriptor in both your own strings.xml as well as the Google provided values.xml, which confuses Gradle of which descriptor to use. Simply rename your own google_app_id resource to another name.