Failed resolution of: Landroid/support/v4/util/ArrayMap;

Question

for some reason my app dosent work on devices with api 21&&22 in relsase mode (in debug mode everything is fine) the app crash right away after start in the console i am getting this error

ava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroid/support/v4/util/ArrayMap;
                                                       at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
                                                       at com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider.onCreate(Unknown Source)
                                                       at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1714)
                                                       at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1683)

the app the latest versions of firebase 11.8.0 and of google services 11.8.0 and of support libary 27.0.2 there is no missing dependency ("com.android.support:support-v4") is included