Dependency conflict with flutterfire (firebase - google_mlkit_face_detection) [GTMSessionFetcher/Core]

[phiyale]

Hello,
flutterfire released a major update, 4 days ago. after updating firebase libs I got the error below:

    [!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "GTMSessionFetcher/Core":
      In Podfile:
        firebase_auth (from `.symlinks/plugins/firebase_auth/ios`) was resolved to 4.0.2, which depends on
          Firebase/Auth (= 10.0.0) was resolved to 10.0.0, which depends on
            FirebaseAuth (~> 10.0.0) was resolved to 10.0.0, which depends on
              GTMSessionFetcher/Core (~> 2.1)

        google_mlkit_face_detection (from `.symlinks/plugins/google_mlkit_face_detection/ios`) was resolved to 0.4.0, which depends on
          GoogleMLKit/FaceDetection (~> 3.2.0) was resolved to 3.2.0, which depends on
            MLKitFaceDetection (~> 2.2.0) was resolved to 2.2.0, which depends on
              MLKitVision (~> 4.2) was resolved to 4.2.0, which depends on
                GTMSessionFetcher/Core (~> 1.1)

I've updated the face_detection package but error still occurs,
in pubspec.yaml

  firebase_auth: ^4.0.2
  firebase_core: ^2.1.0
  google_mlkit_face_detection:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/bharat-biradar/Google-Ml-Kit-plugin.git
      ref: f8edf95e85e74778be2b7f082b367f4a086e503f
      path: packages/google_mlkit_face_detection

flutterfire side:
firebase/flutterfire@9627c56
firebase/flutterfire#9708

flutter doctor:

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.5, on macOS 12.6 21G115 darwin-arm, locale en-US)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 32.1.0-rc1)
[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 14.0.1)
[✓] Android Studio (version 2021.3)
[✓] Android Studio (version 2021.2)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.72.2)
[✓] Connected device (2 available)
[✓] HTTP Host Availability

Are you planning any update update to resolve conflict, or should I rollback FIR update and wait for a while?
Do you any advice to workaround?
Thanks.

[willisra]

I'm facing the same problem but for google_mlkit_text_recognition ( MLKitTextRecognitionKorean and MLKitTextRecognitionJapanese )

I guess the conflict will be solved for all the modules at once since it's a common dependency.

[phiyale]

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199

[phiyale]

MLKit Team(Google side):

Currently the next release is planned at the end of Q4.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199#comment22

😔 You can Vote(I'am impacted button) which at the issue above, you can also leave a comment.

[phiyale]

    The Google team has assigned the MLKit bug ticket https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199 with a Priority level of P4.

P4 is the lowest priority they are working with, described as:

P4 | An issue that should be addressed eventually. Such an issue is not relevant to core organizational functions or the work of other teams, or else it relates only to the attractiveness or pleasantness of the system.

All of you who are experiencing this Google bug, could you please browse to the https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199 issue, and click on the "+1" blue button on the top right to make Google aware that it is affecting people.
Thanks.

Originally posted by @MagnusJohansson in firebase/flutterfire#9805 (comment)

@phiyale
I cannot access the IssueTracker you indicate. Why is that?

[phiyale]

@motoki-osaki
They closed puclic access or removed recently, MLKIT team looks very irresponsible.

@phiyale
Thanks. There must have been over 100 votes...going to remove them? How irresponsible the MLKIT team is.

[sibylantoninobajeli]

This is a frustrating situation!!! I cannot access anymore to https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199 , and I am blocked with my App upgrade development!!
I cannot see the status and votes ( till yesterday have been more than 115 votes).

[phiyale]

I am personally convinced that the mlkit team and their projects cannot be trusted. it seems very important to switch to a more reliable and fully open source alternative instead.

[dmitry-kotorov]

Latest update did not resolve the issue. And I cannot access https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199 as well. Could you please kindly share ETA for the fix to be available?

[phiyale]

@dmitry-kotorov
#357 (comment)

Now can access it. What's going on...
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/254418199#comment22

[phiyale]

@motoki-osaki ahahaha no idea. they may be ambivalent about democracy and transparency :)

[jorgeroncero]

I've managed to workaround this issue until a new stable MLKitVision/MLKitCommons version is released.

I didn't test all features of MLKit but for me it's building and working for barcode scanning. I don't know if there could be any potential error since we are overriding the GTMSessionFetcher version from 1.1 to 2.1 without any code check.

The steps are:

1. Create MLKitVision.podspec.json file in the same folder than your Podfile and copy the json content from https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/blob/master/Specs/8/1/e/MLKitVision/4.2.0/MLKitVision.podspec.json
2. Create MLKitCommon.podspec.json file in the same folder than your Podfile and copy the json content from https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/blob/master/Specs/c/c/6/MLKitCommon/8.0.0/MLKitCommon.podspec.json
3. Modify GTMSessionFetcher/Core version to 2.1 in both created files.
4. Add the following lines to your Podfile under target 'Runner':

 pod 'MLKitCommon', :podspec => 'MLKitCommon.podspec.json'
 pod 'MLKitVision', :podspec => 'MLKitVision.podspec.json'

5. Run pod install
6. Build your app

EDIT:
You should have the latest dependency in your pubspec.yaml, which is google_mlkit_barcode_scanning: ^0.5.0