Failing to publish Android Build to Firebase App Distribute via CircleCI & FastLane

Issue Description

There’s an error that pops up: Could not find fastlane in current directory. Make sure to have your fastlane configuration files inside a folder called "fastlane". Would you like to set fastlane up? when building a release candidate to send to Firebase App distribution.

This Fastlane issue has me stumped because the Fastlane directory exists in the root directory of the project with the configuration keys encrypted yet it gives this error. I’ve already tried releasing the candidate locally through the CLI (bundle exec fastlane android deploy), updating the necessary dependencies through bundler, deleting/re-adding the Fastlane folder to the root directory and the same issue shows up.

Fastlane&CircleCI has worked in the past but as of this week it completely blew up and not too sure what’s been the cause behind it.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Environment

Key Value
OS 11.5.2
Ruby 3.0.3
Bundler? true
Git git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
Installation Source ~/Documents/ThriveGlobal/thrive-android/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.0.0/bin/fastlane
Host macOS 11.5.2 (20G95)
Ruby Lib Dir /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/3.0.3/lib
OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 1.1.1l 24 Aug 2021
Is contained false
Is homebrew false
Is installed via Fabric.app false
Xcode Path /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/
Xcode Version
Swift Version 5.2.4

System Locale

Variable Value
LANG en_US.UTF-8 :white_check_mark:
LC_ALL
LANGUAGE

fastlane files:

No Fastfile found

`./fastlane/Appfile`
json_key_file("") # Path to the json secret file - Follow https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/supply/#setup to get one
package_name("y") # e.g. com.krausefx.app

fastlane gems

Gem Version Update-Status
fastlane 2.199.0 :white_check_mark: Up-To-Date

Loaded fastlane plugins:

Plugin Version Update-Status
fastlane-plugin-firebase_app_distribution 0.3.1 :no_entry_sign: Update available
Loaded gems
Gem Version
did_you_mean 1.5.0
bundler 2.2.32
pathname 0.1.0
rake 13.0.6
rexml 3.2.5
CFPropertyList 3.0.5
public_suffix 4.0.6
addressable 2.8.0
artifactory 3.0.15
atomos 0.1.3
aws-eventstream 1.2.0
aws-partitions 1.541.0
aws-sigv4 1.4.0
jmespath 1.4.0
aws-sdk-core 3.124.0
aws-sdk-kms 1.52.0
aws-sdk-s3 1.109.0
babosa 1.0.4
claide 1.0.3
colored 1.2
colored2 3.1.2
highline 2.0.3
commander 4.6.0
declarative 0.0.20
digest-crc 0.6.4
unf_ext 0.0.8
unf 0.1.4
domain_name 0.5.20190701
dotenv 2.7.6
emoji_regex 3.2.3
excon 0.89.0
faraday-em_http 1.0.0
faraday-em_synchrony 1.0.0
faraday-excon 1.1.0
faraday-httpclient 1.0.1
faraday-net_http 1.0.1
faraday-net_http_persistent 1.2.0
faraday-patron 1.0.0
faraday-rack 1.0.0
multipart-post 2.0.0
ruby2_keywords 0.0.5
faraday 1.8.0
http-cookie 1.0.4
faraday-cookie_jar 0.0.7
faraday_middleware 1.2.0
fastimage 2.2.5
gh_inspector 1.1.3
jwt 2.3.0
memoist 0.16.2
multi_json 1.15.0
os 1.1.4
signet 0.16.0
googleauth 1.1.0
httpclient 2.8.3
mini_mime 1.1.2
trailblazer-option 0.1.2
uber 0.1.0
representable 3.1.1
retriable 3.1.2
webrick 1.7.0
google-apis-core 0.4.1
google-apis-androidpublisher_v3 0.14.0
google-apis-playcustomapp_v1 0.6.0
google-apis-iamcredentials_v1 0.9.0
google-apis-storage_v1 0.10.0
google-cloud-env 1.5.0
google-cloud-errors 1.2.0
google-cloud-core 1.6.0
google-cloud-storage 1.35.0
json 2.6.1
mini_magick 4.11.0
naturally 2.2.1
optparse 0.1.1
plist 3.6.0
rubyzip 2.3.2
security 0.1.3
simctl 1.6.8
terminal-notifier 2.0.0
unicode-display_width 1.8.0
terminal-table 1.8.0
tty-screen 0.8.1
tty-cursor 0.7.1
tty-spinner 0.9.3
word_wrap 1.0.0
nanaimo 0.3.0
xcodeproj 1.21.0
rouge 2.0.7
xcpretty 0.3.0
xcpretty-travis-formatter 1.0.1
fastlane-plugin-firebase_app_distribution 0.3.1

generated on: 2021-12-16