Adding Firebase Crashlytics to an Android app

I repeated this step by step in ADS with a new project.

  1. Initial build => nothing in manifest
  2. Added google-services.json and Google Services gradle plugin => nothing in manifest
  3. Added 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.3.0' gradle reference => everything in manifest

So it’s definitely this package that triggers the manifest merge. I’ll keep looking to see where the actual data is coming from.