Could not find method google()

[Timmmm]

Steps to Reproduce

Just make a new project and then add the shared_preferences plugin as described in its instructions.

I get this error when building:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/shot/.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dartlang.org/shared_preferences-0.3.1/android/build.gradle' line: 6

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':shared_preferences'.
> Could not find method google() for arguments [] on repository container.

To be honest... I'm not 100% sure the project is set up correctly. It pretty much only worked properly the first time I created it and then IntelliJ just forgot all the Android/Flutter settings and it hasn't really worked properly since. The module/SDK/etc. configuration stuff is not very robust at all.

In fact, I removed the references to shared_preferences from my code and from the yaml file, and I still get the same error. That is very weird. Is there no way to do something like a make clean?

Version info

[✓] Flutter (on Mac OS X 10.13.2 17C88, locale en-GB, channel alpha)
    • Flutter at /Users/shot/Tim/flutter
    • Framework revision 8f65fec5f5 (7 weeks ago), 2017-12-12 09:50:14 -0800
    • Engine revision edaecdc8b8
    • Tools Dart version 1.25.0-dev.11.0
    • Engine Dart version 2.0.0-edge.d8ae797298c3a6cf8dc9f4558707bd2672224d3e

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 27.0.3)
    • Android SDK at /Users/shot/Library/Android/sdk
    • Android NDK location not configured (optional; useful for native profiling support)
    • Platform android-27, build-tools 27.0.3
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-915-b08)

[-] iOS toolchain - develop for iOS devices
    ✗ Xcode installation is incomplete; a full installation is necessary for iOS development.
      Download at: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/
      Or install Xcode via the App Store.
      Once installed, run:
        sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    ✗ libimobiledevice and ideviceinstaller are not installed. To install, run:
        brew install --HEAD libimobiledevice
        brew install ideviceinstaller
    ✗ ios-deploy not installed. To install:
        brew install ios-deploy
    ✗ CocoaPods not installed.
        CocoaPods is used to retrieve the iOS platform side's plugin code that responds to your plugin usage on the Dart side.
        Without resolving iOS dependencies with CocoaPods, plugins will not work on iOS.
        For more info, see https://flutter.io/platform-plugins
      To install:
        brew install cocoapods
        pod setup

[✓] Android Studio (version 3.0)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-915-b08)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2017.3.3)
    • Flutter plugin version 21.1.3
    • Dart plugin version 173.4301.22

[✓] Connected devices
    • Android SDK built for x86 • emulator-5554 • android-x86 • Android 7.1.1 (API 25) (emulator)

[Timmmm]

I tried running pub repair, that didn't change anything. So then I tried deleting ~/.pub_cache and now I get this error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/Users/shot/Tim/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle' line: 167

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'android'.
> A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
   > Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':app:_debugApk'.
      > A problem occurred configuring project ':shared_preferences'.
         > Could not find method debugProvided() for arguments [file collection] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

I have removed references to shared_preferences. I also removed the build directory. How is it still getting stuck on this?

[Timmmm]

The only relevant reference to shared_preferences was in .flutter_plugins. I deleted it and it finally builds and runs again. I guess... I can't use shared_preferences then. :-/

[Timmmm]

Ok so this is apparently caused by adding google() as a repository shortcut to the shared_preferences build.gradle.

Obviously I should have read the changelog to know that the latest version of shared_preferences requires a newer-than-current version of Gradle, the Gradle plugin and Android Studio /s.

Kind of blows my mind that someone apparently decided adding a google() shortcut for just copy and pasting a URL was worth breaking everything. Ugh.

Anyway the simplest way around this is just to use shared_preferences 0.2.5 (not 0.2.6; that doesn't seem to have been released). (And them rm .flutter_plugins, because... why would that be fixed automatically? /s)

(Sorry for sarcasm; I just was expecting this to be a lot less buggy)