Android 28 or lower support

[marcelpallares]

We are adding the Segment Firebase integration but it's crashing for devices on Android 28 or lower (our min SDK is 26).

I see there is a vague mention in the README file about this and it points to a link without much explanation to use the version 1.2.0.
Is using 1.2.0 the only way of making the integration work on Android 28 and lower?
What do we do with higher versions, do they get stuck forever in 1.2.0?

[AndrazP]

README is very confusing.
What does “For Android 28 or Lower: here” mean? Are you referring to targetSdk, maybe minSdk?

README is actually mentioning “To avoid issues with app crashes please implement using the aar package.” But that was not enough. Adding transitive = true finally solved the crashes for me.

    implementation('com.segment.analytics.android.integrations:firebase:2.3.3@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }

Bonus if you are using version catalog:

analytics-segment-firebase = "com.segment.analytics.android.integrations:firebase:2.3.3"

implementation(libs.analytics.segment.firebase) {
    transitive = true
    artifact {
        type = "aar"
    }
}