This is indeed tied to play services 9.6.0. We're aware of the issue and working on a fix. To receive the fix, you do not need to update your app. It will be deployed via the Play Services app.
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:38:23 AM UTC-7, Vincenzo Colucci wrote: > > Unfortunately update to firebase 9.4.0 didn't worked for us. > The problem is caused by com.google.firebase:firebase-crash. Just disable > it and everything will work as expected. > > > > On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:11:23 AM UTC+2, a.p wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> Since the latest update of Google Play services (Sep. 12th), 9.6.80, we >> have started receiving errors from several users of an app published on >> Google Play that the app is not working any more, it lags the phone and >> some memory managers report this and kill the application. We have searched >> for release notes to the latest version of Google Play services but could >> not find anything - the last version for which there are release notes is >> 9.4. >> >> Our app uses Google location services to detect the users current >> location and has been running without problems for years. The problems >> started with the latest release of Google play services. >> >> Does anyone know about this? >> >> Thanks in advance >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/8db32625-e114-4570-9da0-52ec07497242%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

