This involved substantial investment in migrating from Protobuf to nanopb, a refactoring that reduced the size of the SDK by more than 30%. Performance Monitoring was the last Firebase product that was missing support for Swift Package Manager, and just a few days ago, the Performance Monitoring team completed their work to get ready for SwiftPM.
#XCODE 12.5 HOW TO#
GIF showing how to add Firebase to iOS app Heavy liftingĪdding support for Swift Package Manager was a multi-year project that not only required us to refactor our directory structure and build options to conform to SwiftPM’s requirements - we also worked closely with the SwiftPM community to resolve integration issues with binary libraries, resource support, and - last but not least - unit testing support.
#XCODE 12.5 INSTALL#
Insert the repository URL for Firebase ( ), and hit enter to install.Navigate to File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency.How to add Firebase using SwiftPMĪdding Firebase to your iOS project is easier than ever before with Xcode 12.5: Gone are the days of having to maintain a working Ruby installation, or having to remember the correct command line arguments just to be able to add a Swift library to your iOS project. This means you can now add Firebase to your iOS project without leaving Xcode. Today, we are excited to announce that as of Firebase 8.6.0 for iOS, Firebase fully supports Swift Package Manager.
For hobby/personal apps, that number is even higher at > 56% of developers using Swift Package Manager in their projects.Īdding support for Swift Package Manager has been one of the most requested features in our issue tracker: image showing a comment from a user asking for iOS supportįirebase shipped initial (beta) support for Swift Package Manager in August 2020 with Firebase 6.31.0 for a partial set of Firebase products. The 2020 iOS Developer Community Survey shows that more than 41% of app developers use Swift Package Manager in their business apps. In recent years, Swift Package Manager has grown in popularity thanks to being officially supported by Apple, and its tight integration with Xcode. CocoaPods has served the iOS community well and has made adding libraries and frameworks as easy as adding their package name to your project’s Podfile file and running pod install. Since Firebase first released an iOS SDK, CocoaPods has been the preferred way to add Firebase to your iOS projects.
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