Setting up Firebase

We will be adding some of the Firebase technologies to our previously developed Favors app, such as Firebase authentication and Cloud Firestore. The steps, however, are always the same for any Flutter application.

The first step to connect an application to Firebase is creating a Firebase app project.

We do this on the Firebase console tool (https://console.firebase.google.com/). This tool allows us to manage all of our Firebase projects, enable/disable specific technologies, and monitor usage:

  1. This is the initial screen of the Firebase console where you can see the recent projects and also add a new project:
  1. The process ...

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