My app was on Cordova@11 and Cordova-Android@11.1 with cordova-plugin-firebasex@16.0.5 and all was working fine. My prod/app store version is running these versions.
I then upgraded my dev environment to Cordova@12, Cordova-Android@13 and the latest cordova-plugin-firebasex@18.0.7, i also upgraded a few other plugins, but not many. Now when I build and launch my app on local device or emulator I see am getting a FirebasePlugin is not defined error BEFORE my the DeviceReady is firing. When clicking on the error in developer console it takes me to this reference: FirebasePlugin._onAuthIdTokenChange() - but no JS line, just a reference to VM3:1 which implies it's being generated by code within code.
To me, this implies an issue with FirebasePlugin as I am not aware of any other plugin that I am using that is trying to directly reference FirebasePlugin as a dependency.
There was a known issue regarding this that was fixed in cordova-plugin-firebasex@17 - and I can still see the fix in the plugin. But as of 18.0.7 it looks like this issue is back. That being said, the developer @dpa99c of the plugin is on top his project (everyone uses it) and no one else is complaining about this issue (since it was fixed back in v17.0). I have posted to the plugin issues but no one is responding there so I am posting here to see if anyone else might be aware of what is causing this.
My other plugins are:
com-sarriaroman-photoviewer 1.3.0 "PhotoViewer"
com.peerio.cordova.plugin.carrier 1.0.1 "Carrier"
cordova-clipboard 1.3.0 "Clipboard"
cordova-custom-config 5.1.1 "cordova-custom-config"
cordova-launch-review 4.1.3 "Launch Review"
cordova-open-native-settings 1.5.6 "Native settings"
cordova-plugin-android-notch 1.0.0 "AndroidNotch"
cordova-plugin-appavailability 0.4.2 "AppAvailability"
cordova-plugin-appinfo 2.1.2 "AppInfo Plugin"
cordova-plugin-console 1.1.0 "Console"
cordova-plugin-customurlscheme 5.0.3 "Custom URL scheme"
cordova-plugin-deeplinks 1.1.1 "Cordova Deeplinks Plugin"
cordova-plugin-device 3.0.0 "Device"
cordova-plugin-deviceinformation 2.0.2 "DeviceInformation"
cordova-plugin-dialogs 2.0.2 "Notification"
cordova-plugin-enable-multidex 0.2.0 "Enable Multidex"
cordova-plugin-file 8.1.3 "File"
cordova-plugin-file-downloader 0.4.0 "Downloader"
cordova-plugin-file-md5 0.3.3 "MD5 Checksum"
cordova-plugin-file-opener2 4.0.0 "File Opener2"
cordova-plugin-file-transfer 2.0.0 "File Transfer"
cordova-plugin-firebasex 18.0.7 "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-geolocation 5.0.0 "Geolocation"
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser 6.0.0 "InAppBrowser"
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0 "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard"
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 5.0.0 "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview"
cordova-plugin-network-information 3.0.0 "Network Information"
cordova-plugin-qrscanner-11 3.0.5 "QRScanner"
cordova-plugin-request-location-accuracy 2.3.0 "Request Location Accuracy"
cordova-plugin-screensize 1.3.1 "screensize"
cordova-plugin-sim 1.3.3 "SIM"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 6.0.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 4.0.0 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-vibration 3.1.1 "Vibration"
cordova-plugin-zip 3.1.0 "cordova-plugin-zip"
cordova-sms-plugin 1.0.4 "Cordova SMS Plugin"
cordova.plugins.diagnostic 7.2.3 "Diagnostic"
Three things to note:
FirebasePlugin._onAuthIdTokenChange() anywhere in my base code, so it's definitely coming from within plugin.For anyone who discovers a similar issue using cordova-plugin-firebasex v18.0.7 on cordova-android, this is the manual fix for the issue. Hopefully this fix gets merged soon in a new version of firebasex and we won't have to do it manually in the future.