title: Google Services Plugin cannot function without google-services.json
body: <blockquote>
    <p>File google-services.json is missing. The Google Services Plugin cannot function </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I get this error code since I deleted my <code>google-services.json</code> file from my project. Now the obvious way to solve this issue would be to include it again, but I had a reason to remove it.</p>
  
  <p>"<a href="https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/start-integrating#horzTab" rel="noreferrer">Note: If you enabled only Google Sign-In when you generated the configuration file, you can skip this step. Google Sign-In does not require the configuration file to be included in your project—generating the file performs the neecessary configuration steps.</a>" - this is the official note in the documentation and since <strong>I only enabled Google Sign-In</strong> I don't see a reason for this error message. Does anyone have had this problem too and a solve to it because I think that I implemented everything correctly.</p>
  
  <p><em>Note: It works <strong>with</strong> the file in the project included.</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> To clarify, my application works completely fine and I have no problems, but I wondered why I cannot remove the google-services.json file even though I should be able to do it with no problem!</p>