Swift Package Manager for Firebase Beta

Introduction

Starting with the 6.31.0 release, Firebase supports installation via Swift Package Manager in Beta status.

Limitations

Requires Xcode 12.
Analytics requires clients to add -ObjC linker option.
Analytics is only supported for iOS and cannot be used in apps that support other platforms.
Messaging, Performance, Firebase ML, and App Distribution are not initially available.
watchOS support is not initially available.

Installation

If you've previously used CocoaPods, remove them from the project with pod deintegrate.

In Xcode

Install Firebase via Swift Package Manager:

Select the Firebase GitHub repository - https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk.git:

Select the beta branch.

Note: Starting with the 6.31.0 release, the versions are specified in a format like 6.34-spm-beta. We won't support standard repository versioning until later in the beta or with general availability of the SPM distribution.

Choose the Firebase products that you want installed in your app.

If you've installed FirebaseAnalytics, Add the -ObjC option to Other Linker Flags in the Build Settings tab.

If you're using FirebaseAnalytics, Xcode 12.0, and have an issue with device installation or archive uploading, see the workaround at https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/6472#issuecomment-694449182.

Alternatively, add Firebase to a `Package.swift` manifest

To integrate via a Package.swift manifest instead of Xcode, you can add Firebase to your dependencies array of your package with:

dependencies: [
  // Substitute X.Y with the version of Firebase you want.
  .package(name: "Firebase",
           url: "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk.git",
           .branch("X.Y-spm-beta")),

  // Any other dependencies you have...
],

Then in any target that depends on a Firebase product, add it to the dependencies array of that target:

.target(
    name: "MyTargetName",
    dependencies: [
      // The product name you need. In this example, FirebaseAuth.
      .product(name: "FirebaseAuth", package: "Firebase"),
    ]
),

Questions and Issues

Please provide any feedback via a GitHub Issue.

See current open Swift Package Manager issues here.

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