FlutterFire Desktop Roadmap 2022

[pr-Mais]

Hello everyone! 👋

We heard you're excited about the FlutterFire Desktop support!
Therefore, we're sharing a tentative roadmap for our plan in 2022 to continue developing FlutterFire on Desktop platforms. 🚧

The Desktop packages for FlutterFire are built over the REST APIs of Firebase using Dart, and it adds support by extending the original FlutterFire platform interface for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The goal is to enable smooth support without much effort needed from developers.

Our implementation for each package is split into 2 packages:

1. The Dart package, implementing an API similar to FlutterFire without dependency on Flutter, can be used alone to build Dart apps.
2. The Desktop package that uses the Dart package and implements all methods in the original package's platform interface.

Roadmap for FlutterFire Desktop in 2022

These plugins are stable:

1. 🟢 Core
   Status: stable
2. 🟢 Authentication
   Status: stable

These plugins are currently in-progress:

1. 🟠 Cloud Functions
   Status: beta
2. 🟡 Remote Config
   Status: in progress
3. 🟡 Cloud Storage
   Status: in progress

These plugins are planned once all preview plugins are shipped:

1. 🔴 Installations
   Status: not started
2. 🔴 Analytics
   Status: not started

This issue will be updated regularly to reflect the current state and any future plans.

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Announcements ✨

1. Announcing stable FlutterFire Auth for Desktop
2. Announcing FlutterFire for Desktop (Preview)

[cbenhagen]

Thank you! I am not sure how others would prioritise the plugins but for us certainly the firestore plugin would be the most important. We can easily live withouth remote config or analytics but without a database our app is quite useless. Please consider to give it more priority.

[pr-Mais]

The reason we didn’t include Firestore or Realtime Database is that Core & Auth are still in preview. They both are essential to most other packages. We’re not sure how much they’re ready until we try them with other packages. Therefore, we decided to implement smaller ones such as Remote Config and Analytics. This will help us get Core & Auth into stable before starting with Firestore.

[eximius313]

I'd love to see Firestore capabilities (even in alpha stage, just for simple queries)

[filipenanclarez]

I really really really need authentication works in windows, android and ios. Currently not works on windows ( see #49 #65 #68 )

Really waiting for it.

[Mufaddal1125]

Will firebase messaging be possible for desktop?

[MousyBusiness]

Hi team, from what I can tell, the auth redirect is using localhost with http (unencrypted), meaning the refresh token is unencrypted on the local network. My understanding is that this is a deficiency in auth code flow which is accounted for in android and ios by using a special backend.
Is it your understanding that this is the case? Local network traffic could be sniffed for the refresh token?
If so, historically I've used a cloud function with Firestore to securely return this result, is there possibility for a hardened solution on this front?

[hwkim1127]

really hope realtime database and cloud firestore to be released soon :'(

cloud Desktop

[eldarkk]

hope for cloud firestore with offline mode

[hpoul]

2. 🔴 Analytics

I'm quite interested in the Analytics functionality. Out of curiosity, do you know of any API documentation? The only one I found was the measurement protocol https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4 which is explicitly "not to replace" the native libraries but to "augment" them.

In particular it requires a `app_instance_id` which can only be retrieved by the official SDKs.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/sending-events?client_type=firebase#required_parameters

[eximius313]

Are there any estimated dates regarding the roadmap?