Firebase Auth and Firestore

Questions
#1

Hi… We need to use Firebase to allow users to log in and to save some basic player data.

I’ve been trying to get Firebase working via the REST API today (as the sdk doesn’t seem to have Auth or Firestore support). I’ve had no luck so am reaching out to the community… Has anyone successfully used Firebase Auth with Defold? If so are there any samples you can share?

Failing that, if anyone here would like us to pay them to do the work in the next week or two please let me know. Whether that’s via the REST API or by extending the existing SDK I don’t really mind.

Thanks!

#2

I should add, if we can hire someone from here to do this were very happy to share whatever the solution is (new sdk etc) with the community.

#3

Which platform do you need this for?

#4

Thanks for your reply

Targeting iOS and android. Would also like to include html5 if possible as that would allow us to preserve progress from players on html5 version if they choose to move to the app.

#5

Have you tried creating the extension yourself? I think you can base the Firebase auth extension on one of the other Firebase extensions, such as the one we have for analytics.

#6

Thanks Bjorn. It’s not something I’ve done before so slightly scared of it. Ideally would outsource to someone if there are any takers. Otherwise I might have to have a try. I struggled with getting anything to Auth using the REST interface yesterday. It seemed like I should be using the signInWithRedirect but I just couldn’t get it to authenticate properly (even just using a web page, not even via Defold).

If anyone has had any success with firebase Auth (and Firestore) I would be eternally grateful for any suggestions.

#7

To give an update on this, after more struggles with Firebase I decided to give PlayFab a try and had more success, so we’ll be using that rather than Firebase.

Thanks!

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