Question: Can we remove google play service as dependency for android?

[shripalsoni04]

Question: Can we remove google play service as dependency for android?

[shripalsoni04]

@zhengiko I don't know whether it is related to this or not, but I tried to copy the code of fetch() and http.getJSON() mentioned at #42 in my project which doesn't have dependency com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.0 included. Both the code are logging proper JSON data on console while testing on my android phone.

[a-v-zheng]

original idea! May be fetch() and http.getJSON() methods will work in this case? #42

[EddyVerbruggen]

The play services lib is required for reading google-services.json which contains the Firebase configuration. I previously included the entire library (as documented by Firebase), but I found out that we only need the 'core' bit by default as can be seen here.

Perhaps you were able to compile without it because you didn't remove and re-add the Android platform afterwards?