Flutter Firebase Starter project

Made with :heartbeat: from Nepal

A project you can clone to build your next project with Flutter with Firebase services.

What Firebase features are implemented?

1. Firebase Authentication
   • Email based sign up/in
   • Google Sign in
2. Cloud Firestore
3. Firebase Messaging
4. Firebase analytics
   • Properly track screen names
   • Ability to track custom events
   • Properly set userid and user properties
5. Firebase Crashlytics
6. Remote Config
7. Provider State management
8. Firebase Storage

What other features are provided?

1. Localization ready
2. Flavors for Dev and Prod environment (can use different firebase projects based on flavor)
3. Google Fonts
4. Image picker
5. Image cropper
6. Device info (saved in user's profile)
7. Package info
8. Flutter Auth buttons
9. User's profile management
10. Android release signing config

Getting Started

How to start your project based on this.

1. Clone this repository locally. The folder structure is somewhat based on clean code architecture

2. Delete .git folder to clear git history

3. Using change_app_package_name package change the package name to whatever you want your package name to be

4. For changing iOS package name use the text editors Find and Replace in whole project folder where you need to find com.popupbits.firebasestarter and with the package name you want

5. Using the same Find and replace in whole project folder search for firebasestarter (package name for dart/flutter project) and replace it with your own suitable name. (check the flutter package naming standards for acceptable format)

6. Using the same Find and replace in whole project folder search for Firebase Starter (display name, launcher name) and replace it with your own suitable name for your app

7. Copy google-services.json for dev firebase project in android/app/src/dev/ and prod firebase project in android/app/src/prod/

8. Copy GoogleService-Info.plist for dev firebase project in ios/Runner/firebase/dev/ and prod firebase project in ios/Runner/firebase/prod

9. For android signing, modify android/key.properties with your signing details and replace keys/keystore.jks with your own keystore or provide different location in android/key.properties for your keystore

10. For google sign in to work copy value of REVERSED_CLIENT_ID from appropriate (dev, prod) GoogleService-Info.plist and paste in Xcode->Target Runner->Build Settings tab -> GSI_CLIENT_ID user defined variable. Value for Debug-dev and Release-dev configuration should be the one from dev GoogleService-Info.plist and rest should be from prod GoogleService-Info.plist

11. For push notifications to work on iOS, you need to follow following two steps as described in firebase_messaging iOS integration section

    • Generate the certificates required by Apple for receiving push notifications following this guide in the Firebase docs. You can skip the section titled "Create the Provisioning Profile".
    • Follow the steps in the "Upload your APNs certificate" section of the Firebase docs.

Adding new Locale

1. Install localizely plugin for your IDE(VS Code or Android Studio)
2. For VS code use the command Flutter Intl: Add locale to add new locale,
3. For android studio, goto Tools | Flutter Intl menu and find Add Locale command.
4. This will generated the required arb file. You just need to update it with your key-value pairs
5. Also check the documentation of the respective tools

Contribution

Contribution (suggestions, issues, feature request, pull requests) are highly welcome. Also looking for help in making it testable by adding unit, widget and integration tests.