Add Firebase To your Flutter Project 2021 (Android)

Mohammed Waseem
3 min readNov 15, 2021

Step-1

Create an Account in Firebase and once its created go to your firebase console

Firebase Link (Click here)

Step-2

In the Firebase Console Click Add Project

Step-3

Enter a project name related to your project and click continue

Step-4

Click Enable google analytics for this project

(Usually, it is on by default)

Then Click Continue

Step-5

Select Default Account for Firebase and click Create Project

Step-6

This is how your console will look once previous steps are done

For Android

Click on android (center icon) to connect to your android project

Enter your package name here.

Do not know what is your package name?

Don't worry, go to your project: folder > android > app > build.gradle

Find :

applicationid “copy whatever is here”

and paste as shown below (my flutter project name is android_firebase)

Click Register App

Next, Download the google-services.json file and put it in

android > app (Paste inside app folder)

Next step,

copy this and paste in android > build.gradle

Next step,

copy this and paste in android > app > build.gradle

And inside dependencies add multidex

In the same file do the below step

Enable multidex to true

Final steps:

Add firebase_core package to your dependencies link here and import file to main.dart file

Last,

Edit main.dart file to look like this

Uninstall and Newly Run your app on the emulator and it should be working perfectly

Hope this blog has helped you with enough information on how to connect your Android Project to firebase

IOS project connection coming soon

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