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How Firebase integration with Flutter apps improved over time

Learn how easy it is to add Firebase to your Flutter app now. It was quite the hassle before.

Before this summer, the Google I/O conference took place and there was exciting news about Firebase and Flutter. It is now way easier to integrate Firebase in Flutter apps because the developers redesigned the whole process and automated some cumbersome steps. To be fair, this was also available before but the documentation was hidden. Now you can find the required steps directly in Firebase when creating a new app.

Old

Let’s say you have a Flutter app targeting iOS, Android, and Web as platforms. Your previous workflow was like this:

iOS
🔹 Create iOS app in Firebase
🔹 Download GoogleService-info.plist configuration file
🔹 Add Firebase SDK to your code
🔹 Add initialization code to your code

Android
🔹 Create Android app in Firebase
🔹 Download google-services.json configuration file
🔹 Edit build.gradle files to add Firebase SDK to your code