title: Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone:9.8.0
body: <p>I've been trying to setup firebase in my app for a while now with no luck.</p>
  <p>Immediately I install the lastest version of com.google.firebase:firebase-auth -&gt; 21.0.6 which is required for setting up firebase, I get the above error which doesn't seem to go away no matter what unless I remove the package.</p>
  <p>I looked around everywhere to see if it's defined somewhere in the package to change it but it's no where to be found.</p>
  <p>Finally tracked it down in the dependencies tree, it only appears once and it seems to be resolving to 9.8.0 in the following line</p>
  <pre><code>com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone:17.4.0 -&gt; 9.8.0 FAILED
  </code></pre>
  <p>Things i've tried (Basically anything I could find on it or anything similar on the internet)</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Installed different version of the firebase dependencies auth &amp; app (even to versions where play-services-auth-api-phone had not been introduced as a dependency and it still does not work.</li>
  <li>Moved around a couple things in my /build.gradle, jcenter, google(), etc to no luck</li>
  <li>Played around with different versions of play-services and gradle.</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Any help will be much appreciated.</p>
  <p>Also this is the error that gets thrown when running the project:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt; Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
  </code></pre>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth-api-phone:9.8.0.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <pre><code> Searched in the following locations:
     - file:/C:/Users/username/.m2/repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - file:/D:/Github/app_name/node_modules/react-native/android/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - file:/D:/Github/app_name/node_modules/jsc-android/dist/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - https://maven.google.com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - https://www.jitpack.io/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
     - https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth-api-phone/9.8.0/play-services-auth-api-phone-9.8.0.pom
  
   Required by:
       project :app &gt; project :react-native-firebase_auth &gt; com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:21.0.6
  </code></pre>