There is an issue with including this library by itself where classes are not able to be found at runtime. Stacktrace:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.google.maps.android.SphericalUtil" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.google.codelabs.findlocalplacesinar-IlY-Zx_cOMFwQ5RPtmGgug==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.google.codelabs.findlocalplacesinar-IlY-Zx_cOMFwQ5RPtmGgug==/lib/x86, /data/app/com.google.codelabs.findlocalplacesinar-IlY-Zx_cOMFwQ5RPtmGgug==/base.apk!/lib/x86, /system/lib, /system/product/lib]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:196)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.maps.android:maps-utils-ktx:0.1.1'
}