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I am using Firebase Core and some other Features, but not Remote Config. Multiple times a second the following Output is on Logcat.

Where can I disable the Remote Config functionality or even set those non-existing values?

Dependencies:

// Project
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'
classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-plugins:1.2.0'
classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.26.1'
// Module
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3'
implementation 'com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:preference-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'
implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.11.3'
implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.11.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.8'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.5.0'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:16.2.4'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0'
implementation 'com.jsibbold:zoomage:1.2.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:exifinterface:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'
implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.9'
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'sessions_max_length_minutes'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'sessions_max_length_minutes'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'sessions_feature_enabled'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'sessions_max_length_minutes'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'fpr_vc_trace_sampling_rate'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'sessions_feature_enabled'.
W/FirebaseRemoteConfig: No value of type 'String' exists for parameter key 'fpr_vc_trace_sampling_rate'.

It is not causing any problems I think, just annoying that it spams the Console.

If you have feedback about Firebase SDKs, contact Firebase support. firebase.google.com/support/contact – Doug Stevenson Apr 4, 2019 at 7:57 @DougStevenson I am not having feedback, I am just wondering where this output comes from. – Pascal Syma Apr 4, 2019 at 9:03

Firebase answer to my bug report:

It seems that you're getting some warning about Remote Config. We managed to reproduce on our end, and our engineers have confirmed that this is working as intended. This happens because the Performance Monitoring SDK was added on your app. This is because Performance Monitoring uses Firebase Remote Config internally. However, our engineers have confirmed that they will try to reduce these warnings in the future. For now, you can ignore these as it's only a warning, and should not affect the app's performance.

In the meantime, if you don't want to see them while you are debugging your app, you can create a filter to Android Studio Logcat for that log tag: ^(?!(FirebaseRemoteConfig)) – Oscar Salguero Jun 28, 2019 at 21:30 @Sp4Rx Reference on their side is [3-1516000026221] but I only get the answer via mail on May 9th. that's why I couldn't link it. – Hrk Jul 29, 2019 at 15:52

It comes from last versions of firebase-perf (for example, 16.2.5), because it has internal firebase-remote-config dependency. I have the same issue, but I don't know how to properly fix this log spam (except "Fold lines like this" option in logcat). I hope Firebase team will fix it soon.

Solution

Firebase Performance released version 19.0.8 last week to address log spam issue. (see Release Note https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android#2020-07-17) You can update your dependency com.google.firebase:firebase-perf to be the same or higher version to validate the fix.

Explaination

To explain more about the reason of this issue: Firebase Performance utilizes Firebase Remote Config to sample down number of events being sent to Firebase, so it will call Firebase Remote Config API getValue(String key) every time it needs the sampling configuration value.

However, Firebase Remote Config fetch happens every 12 hours. It is possible that configuration value doesn't exist by the time of development. In this case, Firebase Performance SDK will use default value.

When the configuration value doesn't exist, Firebase Remote Config will generate this log for warning, which is the source of log spam for Firebase Performance users. (See Source Code)

We have reduced Firebase Performance's call frequency to Firebase Remote Config to avoid triggering this log.

If you use Firebase Console, setting both values in the Remote Config tab stops the warnings.

I've used: (as string values)

  • Parameter key: sessions_max_length_minutes | Value: "15"
  • Parameter key: sessions_feature_enabled | Value: "true"
  • Not sure if there are any side effects, but (hopefully) it's an internal testing thing and doesn't change anything.

    I believed that Firebase Performance uses Remote Config itself, as an implementation detail (having its own Firebase project owned by Google). – cubuspl42 Jul 20, 2020 at 9:03

    The Firebase Android library firebase-core is no longer needed. This SDK included the Firebase SDK for Google Analytics.

    Remove firebase-core in your build.gradle

    This is the best answer for anyone looking at this question in 2020 - see firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android – Peter Jun 10, 2020 at 23:41

    This might be related to, or a result of:

    W/zzd: Application name is not set. Call Builder#setApplicationName
    

    disabling perf-plugin & firebase-perf removes the annoying log entries:

    // classpath "com.google.firebase:perf-plugin:1.2.1"
    // apply plugin: "com.google.firebase.firebase-perf"
    // implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:17.0.0"
    

    firebase-config works fine on it's own.

    This was my observation:

    If you have a specific key set up on RemoteConfig console & have not added a default key in the default xml (passed in setDefaultsAsync()).

    And if, for some rare case,
    either the there was No Connectivity or Firebase RemoteConfig failed to fetch the values & if that specific key was used to get a default value,
    you might get that message in the Logcat.

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