Add Firebase to your Flutter app with FlutterFire plugins
Blog post from LogRocket
Firebase, supported by Google, offers a suite of services such as real-time database, authentication, crash monitoring, analytics, and push notifications to assist in mobile app development. By providing these backend services, Firebase allows developers to focus on building core app features. FlutterFire, a collection of official plugins, facilitates the integration of Firebase services into Flutter apps. This tutorial demonstrates the use of several key FlutterFire plugins like Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Remote Config, Crashlytics, and Analytics through building a virtual playground game. The guide details setting up Firebase projects for both Android and iOS, enabling user authentication, real-time data synchronization using Cloud Firestore, dynamic app updates with Remote Config, error monitoring via Crashlytics, and user behavior tracking through Analytics. Overall, it offers a practical approach to integrating these plugins to create a robust and user-friendly mobile application.