Installing and configuring Firebase SDKs for Flutter
Though there are different ways we can configure a Flutter application for Firebase, we will use the easiest and most recommended method, which is using the FlutterFire CLI application. The application is written especially for Flutter projects. Let’s get started:
- First, install
flutterfire_cli
using the following command:dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli
Doing this will install flutterfire_cli
globally and the flutterfire
command should be available in your command line. Confirm this by running the following command:
flutterfire –version
You should see the following output:
0.2.2+2
flutterfire_cli
uses thefirebase-tools
package internally, so we need to install that as well using the following command:npm install -g firebase-tools
Doing this will install firebase-tools
globally and the firebase
command should be available in your command line. Confirm this by running the...