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Sonu Sharma edited this page May 23, 2020 · 10 revisions

Getting started

1. Flutter Environment Setup

2. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/TheAlphamerc/flutter_twitter_clone.git
$ cd flutter_twitter_clone/

3. Setup the firebase app

  1. You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
  2. Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable Google authentication.
  • Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
  • Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
  • Click the "sign-in method" tab
  • Click "Google" and enable it
  • Click "Email/Password" and enable it
  1. Enable the Firebase Database
  • Go to the Firebase Console
  • Click "Database" in the left-hand menu
  • Click the Realtime "Create Database" button
  • Select "Start in test mode" and "Enable"
  1. (skip if not running on Android)
  • Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name > com.thealphamerc.flutter_twitter_clone
  • Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:
keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore
  • In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking "Add Fingerprint".
  1. Add "Storage" to your Firebase project (otherwise storing images do not work)
  2. Add "FcmServerKey" to Firebase Remote Config Follow below steps to get FCM server key.
  • Open your project in firebase.
  • Click on gear icon in sidebar. A popup will open then click on project settings
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  • Open Cloud messaging tab
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  • You can get FCM server key from there
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  • Go to firebase remote config
  • Create parameter with name FcmServerKey
  • Add below json to default value field.

json { "key": "FCM server key here" }

Check below firebase config screenshot

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  • Download google-services.json
  • place google-services.json into /android/app/.
  1. (skip if not running on iOS)
  • Create an app within your Firebase instance for iOS, with your app package name
  • Follow instructions to download GoogleService-Info.plist
  • Open XCode, right click the Runner folder, select the "Add Files to 'Runner'" menu, and select the GoogleService-Info.plist file to add it to /ios/Runner in XCode
  • Open /ios/Runner/Info.plist in a text editor. Locate the CFBundleURLSchemes key. The second item in the array value of this key is specific to the Firebase instance. Replace it with the value for REVERSED_CLIENT_ID from GoogleService-Info.plist
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