Android build issues with Fuse.Firebase related to play-services-auth version

When trying to run Android build I run into the error specified below

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    A problem occurred configuring root project ‘Debug’.

java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

(unknown): E0200: Android build failed

please apply google-services plugin at the bottom of the build file.
google-services plugin could not detect any version for com.google.android.gms or com.google.firebase, default version: 9.0.0 will be used.
please apply google-services plugin at the bottom of the build file.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 4.134 secs
7.99 s

Build completed in 8.22 seconds
1 error

Why not to use Fuse.PushNotifications module ? It worth to use for Android !