Android API 15上的Firebase致命异常

Question

根据Firebase文档：https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup?authuser=0
Firebase应该可以在android 14及更高版本上运行，但是我什至无法在android设备api 15上打开我的应用。

我得到了例外：

09-27 06:30:29.964 2146-2146/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider
        at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:4563)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4190)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4132)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:130)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1255)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
     Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider
        at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:61)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)

甚至在应用程序出现白屏或其他任何东西并且用户获得的只是弹出的“应用程序停止工作”之前，这种情况就会发生

这些是我的依赖项：

  implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:15.0.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:preference-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:customtabs:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.1'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:16.0.1'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:16.0.2'
    implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.3'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:15.0.1'
    implementation 'com.android.billingclient:billing:1.1'