Plugin.Firebase

This is a wrapper library around the native Android and iOS Firebase Xamarin SDKs which includes cross-platform APIs for most of the Firebase features.

Supported features

Feature	Plugin	Version
Analytics	Plugin.Firebase.Analytics
Auth	Plugin.Firebase.Auth
Facebook Auth	Plugin.Firebase.Auth.Facebook
Cloud Messaging	Plugin.Firebase.CloudMessaging
Crashlytics	Plugin.Firebase.Crashlytics
Dynamic Links	Plugin.Firebase.DynamicLinks
Firestore	Plugin.Firebase.Firestore
Cloud Functions	Plugin.Firebase.Functions
Remote Config	Plugin.Firebase.RemoteConfig
Storage	Plugin.Firebase.Storage
All in one	Plugin.Firebase

Basic setup

1. Create a Firebase project in the Firebase Console, if you don't already have one. If you already have an existing Google project associated with your mobile app, click Import Google Project. Otherwise, click Create New Project.
2. Click Add Firebase to your [iOS|Android] app and follow the setup steps. If you're importing an existing Google project, this may happen automatically and you can just download the config file.
3. Add [GoogleService-Info.plist|google-services.json] file to your app project.
4. Set [GoogleService-Info.plist|google-services.json] build action behaviour to [Bundle Resource|GoogleServicesJson] by Right clicking/Build Action.

.NET MAUI support

The new plugin version 1.2.0 now supports .NET MAUI applications with .NET 6 🚀

To get started add the GoogleService-Info.plist and the google-services.json files to the root folder of your project and include them in the .csproj file like this:

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net6.0-android'">
    <GoogleServicesJson Include="google-services.json" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net6.0-ios'">
    <BundleResource Include="GoogleService-Info.plist" />
</ItemGroup>

Initialize the plugin in your MauiProgram.cs like this:

using Plugin.Firebase.Auth;

#if IOS
using Plugin.Firebase.Core.Platforms.iOS;
#else
using Plugin.Firebase.Core.Platforms.Android;
#endif

public static class MauiProgram
{
    public static MauiApp CreateMauiApp()
    {
        return MauiApp
            .CreateBuilder()
            .UseMauiApp<App>()
            ...
            .RegisterFirebaseServices()
            .Build();
    }
    
    private static MauiAppBuilder RegisterFirebaseServices(this MauiAppBuilder builder)
    {
        builder.ConfigureLifecycleEvents(events => {
#if IOS
            events.AddiOS(iOS => iOS.FinishedLaunching((_,__) => {
                CrossFirebase.Initialize();
                return false;
            }));
#else
            events.AddAndroid(android => android.OnCreate((activity, _) =>
                CrossFirebase.Initialize(activity)));
#endif
        });
        
        builder.Services.AddSingleton(_ => CrossFirebaseAuth.Current);
        return builder;
    }
    
}

Ensure the ApplicationId in your .csproj file matches the bundle_id and package_name inside of the [GoogleService-Info.plist|google-services.json] files:

<ApplicationId>com.example.myapp</ApplicationId>

The plugin doesn't support Windows or Mac catalyst, so either remove their targets from your .csproj file or use preprocessor directives and MSBuild conditions, e.g:

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net6.0-ios' OR '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net6.0-android'">
    <PackageReference Include="Plugin.Firebase" Version="1.2.0" />
</ItemGroup>

Android specifics

• Add the following ItemGroup to your .csproj file to prevent build errors:

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net6.0-android'">
  <PackageReference Include="Xamarin.Kotlin.StdLib.Jdk7" Version="1.7.10" ExcludeAssets="build;buildTransitive" />
  <PackageReference Include="Xamarin.Kotlin.StdLib.Jdk8" Version="1.7.10" ExcludeAssets="build;buildTransitive" />
</ItemGroup>

Take a look at the sample project to get more information.

Plugin.Firebase.Legacy

If you are working with an older Xamarin project and are not able to migrate to .NET MAUI yet, there is a legacy version of the plugin called Plugin.Firebase.Legacy. The code for this package is located on a branch called legacy. Bugfixes or other small important changes can be done here and will be synced to the development/master branch if needed.

Android specifics

• Add the following PackageReference to the .csproj file of your android project to prevent a build error (see this github comment for more information):

<PackageReference Include="Xamarin.Google.Guava.ListenableFuture" Version="1.0.0.2" ExcludeAssets="build;buildTransitive" />

• If you receive an error that states the default Firebase App is not initialized, adding one package explicitly seems to resolve this issue (it doesn't seem to matter which package gets added).

Documentation and samples

In the docs folder you can find for every feature a designated readme file that describes the setup and usage of this feature or where to find more information.

In the sample folder you can find a sample Xamarin.Forms project. This project serves as a base to play around with the plugin and to test features that are hard to test automatically (like Authentication or Cloud Messages). playground-functions is a Cloud Functions project and contains the code to enable sending Cloud Messages from the backend.

In the tests folder you can find a Xamarin.Forms project that lets you run integration tests. You should definitely check out the *Fixture.cs files to learn how the plugin is supposed to work. All the tests should pass when they get executed on a real device.

In case you would like to run the sample or test project by yourself, you need to add the GoogleService-Info.plist and google-services.json files of your own firebase project and adapt the other config files like Info.plist, Entitlements.plist, AndroidManifest.xml.

Using Firebase Local Emulator Suite

If you would like to use the Firebase Local Emulator Suite for your tests or rapid prototyping you can do so by following the steps of the Getting started guide and calling the UseEmulator(host, port) method of the desired firebase service before doing any other operations.

For example the Plugin.Firebase.IntegrationTests project is configured to be able to use the Cloud Firestore emulator. You can start the emulator with initial seed data by running firebase emulators:start --only firestore --import=test-data/. Uncomment the line CrossFirebaseFirestore.Current.UseEmulator("localhost", 8080); in IntegrationTestAppDelegate.cs or MainActivity.cs to let the test project know it should use the emulator. Now all firestore related tests should pass.

Contributions

You are welcome to contribute to this project by creating a Pull Request. The project contains an .editorconfig file that handles the code formatting, so please apply the formatting rules by running dotnet format src/Plugin.Firebase.sln in the console before creating a Pull Request (see dotnet-format docs or this video for more information).

License

Plugin.Firebase is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Release notes

• Version 2.0.*
  • see docs of separate nuget packages
• Version 2.0.0
  • All features have been split into separate nuget packages
  • Cleaned up namespaces
  • Enable usage of DateTime in Firestore #137
  • Remove unnecessary dependency Microsoft.CSharp #143
  • Fix fcm token refresh by adding DidReceiveRegistrationToken method to FirebaseCloudMessagingImplementation
• Version 1.3.0
  • Get rid of newtonsoft.json, use system.text.json instead #119
  • Add crashlytics implementation #120
  • Add support for DateTime type to ToHashMap/Put extension #121
  • Lazy google/facebook auth #122
  • Return FIRAuthError.WrongPassword at android for wrong pw signin #117
  • Calling completion in didReceiveNotificationResponse:completionHandler #106
  • Big thanks to tranb3r for the contributions! :)