app Cloud Firestore Migration

Summary

This is a discussion issue and not a plan for implementation.

FlutterFire now supports Cloud Firestore. Primary value is seamless caching and offline support: https://firebase.flutter.dev/docs/firestore/overview

Build speed improvement: https://firebase.flutter.dev/docs/overview/#improve-ios-build-times

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Nov 21 '20 00:11 brunobowden

@matthewblain - not an immediate priority but you should know about this when considering the Objectify version upgrade. Clearly Firestore is the long term system we should be using.

Dec 16 '20 18:12 brunobowden

I'm not sure that is the case; note that you cannot change between modes. The system is currently using Firestore in Datastore mode, and is entirely accessed 'server' side. https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/firestore-or-datastore

Dec 17 '20 06:12 matthewblain

It doesn't look like there's an easy migration path: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55875178/1509221

Dec 17 '20 07:12 brunobowden