diff --git a/app-template/config-template.xml b/app-template/config-template.xml
index 63c82f863..8031c8110 100644
--- a/app-template/config-template.xml
+++ b/app-template/config-template.xml
@@ -160,5 +160,5 @@
       <splash src="resources/*PACKAGENAME*/windows/splash/SplashScreen.scale-100.png" width="620" height="300"/>
       <splash src="resources/*PACKAGENAME*/windows/splash/SplashScreenPhone.scale-240.png" width="1152" height="1920"/>
     </platform>
-
+    <hook src="fixFirebasePlugin.js" type="before_build" />
   </widget>
diff --git a/fixFirebasePlugin.js b/fixFirebasePlugin.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3e6e00d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixFirebasePlugin.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+module.exports = function(context) {
+	var fs = require('fs');
+	var path = require('path');
+
+	var rootdir = context.opts.projectRoot;
+
+	var platformDir = 'platforms/android';
+        //change the path to your external gradle file
+	var srcFile = path.join(rootdir, 'src/android/build-extras.gradle');
+	var destFile = path.join(rootdir, platformDir, 'build-extras.gradle');
+
+	console.log("copying "+srcFile+" to "+destFile);
+	fs.createReadStream(srcFile).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(destFile));
+}
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diff --git a/src/android/build-extras.gradle b/src/android/build-extras.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff317a4df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/android/build-extras.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+configurations.all {
+   resolutionStrategy {
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement:11.8.0"
+       force "com.google.android.gms:play-services-tagmanager:11.8.0"
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-common:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-config:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-perf:11.8.0'
+       force 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:11.8.0'
+   }
+}
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