Google Services Plugin cannot function without google-services.json
You are using Google signin right? So u definitely need a google-services.json file
Refer this link
https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/start-integrating
Add the dependency to your project-level build.gradle:
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'
Add the plugin to your app-level build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
When you add apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
inside your app-level build.gradle
it parses configuration information from the google-services.json
file.
You removed google-services.json
file, that's why it is not able to parse
So remove the below line too from your app-level build.gradle
who triggered parsing to make it work again.
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'