"Could not reach Firestore backend", multiple Firebase apps, Android - android

I'm migrating from Realtime Database to Firestore. Because I can't have both a Realtime Database instance and a Firestore instance in the same project, I have to init the Firestore instance manually, rather than have it pick up the google-services.json file automatically as part of the build. I've done that like this:
FirebaseOptions firebaseOptions = new FirebaseOptions.Builder()
.setProjectId("***")
.setApiKey("***")
.setApplicationId("***")
.setDatabaseUrl("https://***.firebaseio.com")
.build();
FirebaseApp firebaseApp = FirebaseApp.initializeApp(this, firebaseOptions, "dev");
FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance(firebaseApp);
All the values are taken from the google-services.json file I downloaded for the new project.
Calling FirebaseFirestore.getInstance() is fine, but when I later try to get a document, I see this in logcat:
W/Firestore: (0.6.6-dev) [OnlineStateTracker]: Could not reach Firestore backend.
The Task for a get() call to a Document has an exception message of:
Failed to get document because the client is offline.
The device is online, for sure. The new project in the console does NOT have the SHA certificate fingerprints set, because I can't use the same one as for the original project.
What am I missing?
[Edit]

I know that is a little late for the answer. In my case, I had the same problem because I try to test Datastore and I lose the possibility to use Firestore in my project. When I try to create a new project for Firestore, I have to init the Firestore instance manually and I had the same problem.
In my case, the problem was that one of the parameters of FirebaseOptions was wrong (in my case was project_id because I had put project_number). I had taken all parameters from google_services.json from the new project:
FirebaseOptions.Builder()
.setApplicationId("X:XXXXXXXX:android:YYYYYYY") // FROM client_info -> mobilesdk_app_id.
.setApiKey("AIzaXXXXXXXXXXX") // FROM api_key -> current_key
.setDatabaseUrl("https://XXXXXXX.firebaseio.com") // FROM firebase_url.
.setProjectId("XXXXXXXX") //FROM project_id
.setStorageBucket("XXXXXXX.appspot.com") //FROM storage_bucket
.build();
After that everything start to work fine.

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