Capacitor: Cordova Google analytics: Java exception was raised during method invocation

[stripathix]

Description of the problem:
Using https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-google-analytics plugin causes app crash.

Affected platform

• [X] Android
• [ ] iOS
• [ ] electron
• [ ] web

OS of the development machine

• [ ] Windows
• [X] macOS
• [ ] linux

Other information:
Maybe it is related to https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/1142 but not sure what to change to make it work with google analytics.

Capacitor version: 1.0.0-beta.24

Steps to reproduce:
1) Add "cordova-plugin-google-analytics": "^1.8.6", plugin
2) Just register analytics

window.analytics.startTrackerWithId(AppConst.gaIdMobile);

3) It throws error

[jcesarmobile]

Can you provide a sample app?

[stripathix]

Here it is.

Just run the application on android. It will try to register analytics from main.js and it will just throw the error.

https://github.com/stripathix/ionic-vue

[jcesarmobile]

It's because the analytics plugin uses an old play-services-analytics version.

I got it working by adding this to the app's build.gradle file in the dependencies section to force it to use latest version:

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:16.0.8"