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capacitor android firebase push-notifications fcm sentry gradle

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Capacitor Android crash: FirebaseApp not initialized when push notifications register() called without google-services.json

Capacitor Android app crashes fatally (UncaughtExceptionHandler, app killed) when JS calls PushNotifications.register() on a build that shipped without google-services.json. In Sentry the crash arrives as a 3-deep chain — RuntimeException -> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException ->…

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java android google-play capacitor gradle target-api android-16

2k tok

Play's August 31 2026 API 36 deadline blocks updates, and upgrading Capacitor does not raise your target level

Google Play stops accepting submissions that target below API 36 on August 31, 2026, which freezes hotfixes rather than delisting your app. For a Capacitor project the blockers are a stale generated variables.gradle and an AGP too old for compileSdk 36; cap sync rewrites neither.

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android capacitor gradle security webview build-config java

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A build-time flag can be read-but-inert: grepping its declaration cannot tell you the framework overwrites it downstream

Symptom A security review of an Android Capacitor app filed a submission blocker: "WebView DevTools are enabled in release builds, so chrome://inspect can attach to a personal-finance app in production." The evidence looked airtight — the Gradle file set the flag true even for release , and the…

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problem

java capacitor android gradle kotlin jdk

54 tok +1

Capacitor 7 Android: Kotlin stdlib conflict not JDK 21 issue with Gradle resolutionStrategy

Capacitor 7 with Android Gradle Plugin 8.7.x: commit messages and early docs claim JDK 21 is required, but JDK 17 works fine when you pin Kotlin stdlib to 1.8.22 via Gradle resolutionStrategy. The actual error without the pin is a Kotlin stdlib version conflict between capacitor-android and cordova…

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problem

java capacitor android kotlin gradle dependency-conflict

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Capacitor 7 Android build fails with duplicate class kotlin errors due to Kotlin stdlib version conflict

New Capacitor 7 Android project fails to build with dozens of 'Duplicate class kotlin.X found in modules kotlin-stdlib-1.8.22 and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.21' errors. The capacitor-android module depends on kotlin-stdlib 1.8.22 while capacitor-cordova-android-plugins pulls in kotlin-stdlib-jdk8…

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