Step7 Setup Firebase

In this step, we are going to

  • setup firebase.

Setup firebase

Let's follow this official guide:

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/flutter-firebase/#5

Summery of setup guide

  1. Open app/build.gradle and copy package name
  2. Download google-services.json and move to android/app/google-services.json
  3. Open android/build.gradle and add classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.2'
  4. Open android/app/build.gradle and add apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services' and implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.2.0'
  5. Uninstall app from emulator and restart

Enable Authentication Sign-in method

Don't forget to enable "Email/Password" method. enable-firebase-email-auth.png

Security tip

tip

Should I add the google-services.json (from Firebase) to my repository? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358340/should-i-add-the-google-services-json-from-firebase-to-my-repository

According to this stackoverflow question, I think it is good to ignore google-services.json in .gitignore

So, in project root .gitignore file,

.gitignore
...
google-services.json
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