title: Where do I place Googleservices.json in Flutter app in order to solve 'google-services.json is missing'
body: <p>I get this error when i try building the default flutter app after integrating it with Firebase</p>
  
  <p>I have placed the googleservices.json in the right place. Now it says it is searching for it in locations that are not there. like </p>
  
  <pre><code>src\debug\nullnull\google- services.json    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this folder does not even exist, i have looked and it is not present. </p>
  
  <pre><code>Launching lib\main.dart on Phone in debug mode...
  Configuration 'compile' in project ':app' is deprecated. Use 
  'implementation' instead.
   registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use 
   registerGeneratedFolders(FileCollection)
   registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use 
   registerGeneratedFolders(FileCollection)
   registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedFolders(FileCollection)
  
  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  
  * What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugGoogleServices'.
  &gt; File google-services.json is missing. The Google Services Plugin cannot 
  function without it. 
  Searched Location: 
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\src\nullnull\debug\google- 
  services.json
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\src\debug\nullnull\google- 
  services.json
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\src\nullnull\google- 
  services.json
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\src\debug\google- 
  services.json
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\src\nullnullDebug\google- 
  services.json
  C:\Users\rober\Documents\VS\APPNAME\android\app\google-services.json
  
  * Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or -- 
  debug option to get more log output.
  
  * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
  
  BUILD FAILED in 8s
  Gradle build failed: 1
  Exited (sigterm)
  </code></pre>