Google Play Services 21 IncompatibleClassChangeError FusedLocationProviderClient

[AAverin]

Reasoning

Google have introduced some breaking changes in Google Play Services 21.0.1 turning some classes into interfaces.
This results in exceptions in production, especially if other location libraries like flutter location are used:

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found interface com.google.android.gms.location.FusedLocationProviderClient, but class was expected (declaration of 'com.google.android.gms.location.FusedLocationProviderClient'

Unfortunately because mapbox-core-andorid is no longer supported, it won't be migrated to 21+ implementation.

The best we can do is to pin play services to 20.0.0 in the library. This fixes exceptions in production builds, at least for example app.

Likely some changes in the project that uses this library will have to be made to make things work.

What changed

Force google play-services-location to 20.0.0 as this is the latest mapbox-core-android can support due to mapbox/mapbox-events-android#577

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[aardrop]

@AAverin Did this work for you? Are you using a fork of this with these changes or updated pub dependencies by chance?

[AAverin]

@aardrop unfortunately I don't have access to merge any PRs into this repo. I have a local fork where I did small changes, including this one, to keep it working and reference is with dependency overrides in my project.

[AAverin]

@m0nac0 If you are still maintaining maplibre, do you have a fix published already? Do you need a PR there?