At 5:43, open a terminal...which terminal I have to open for windows?

@@iqraimtiaz5209 cmd is what you run. Check if keytool is on your path.

@@solidlahori Yeah now I understood...all done...Thank you

Typically, if you ever call FirebaseApp.DefaultInstance you should start getting analytics without needing to make this call. I do feel that this is the clearest way to integrate Analytics if that's the only Firebase client SDK you plan on using (if I wasn't familiar with Firebase, and found a script that just said DefaultInstance and didn't do anything with it, I'd assume it was dead code and clean it up).

@nio2edward It might be good to move to something that's better for sharing code/debugging (say firebase.google.com/support, reddit.com/r/firebase, stack overflow, or firebase.community). But I'd want to know what platform you're running the editor on (Windows, Linux, or MacOS), which platform you're running your game on (Android or iOS), whether or not you added analytics to your project (this is optional now, wasn't when I recorded this video), and whether or not you get any error messages when you call FirebaseApp.CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync. My debugging process is first to make sure everything's setup in the backend (packageid matches, you have the json and/or plist, Analytics is hooked up, &c), then make sure your build is setup correctly (getting your dependencies in iOS/Android - this can be complicated in Unity 2020.1 firebase.googleblog.com/2020/08/firebase-compatibility-with-unity-20201.html), making sure your device is configured correctly (has play services/updated play services on Android, not being blocked by a firewall), and finally you'd want enter debug mode and see if stuff's getting sent up ( firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/debugview ).

Any update on this?

@@marcloicardona nah mate. I dropped it. sorry. the only thing I achieved was creating a Google login

it's 5GB for me

@nio2edward I feel you, bro.

Is it the file size or the download size that is 2.2gb

This has been something the team has focused on. In addition to bringing the size down, you can now download the packages individually here: developers.google.com/unity/packages#firebase A few caveats: 1) make sure you always keep your versions in sync, if you forget to update a package you'll have a bad time (this is why the .zip file is still favored in docs) 2) this only supports the dotnet4 variants of the Firebase plugin. This is likely what you need, but there's a chance that you're still using dotnet3 if you have a game in Unity 2018 or earlier.

thanks, i am happy now

Did you download the google-services.json or GoogleService-Info.plist (~4:36)? If that doesn't work, I would strongly encourage you to see if you can find your issue on github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues/ or file a new bug there. It will be much easier to track. Without more information, if downloading those files and putting them in the Assets/ directory doesn't help, you _could_ be running into this issue: github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues/540

if you're not seeing the 1 user in last 30 mins, select "StreamView" it's in the same blue column.

You're welcome

Woah, I went a little crazy with the copy/paste. It should work in development mode. Are you using "ContinueWith" or "ContinueWithOnMainThread"? The former will reenter Unity on the wrong thread, and Unity probably has extra checks in Debug mode to check it.

@@pux0r3 What we currently do is just cache the Task from CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync and wait until the Tasks's IsCompleted is done, then do whatever initialization after the Status checking. It works well for us so it's all good. What I mean in my comment is based on my test on a device. I used ContinueWith, and added the Status check inside the delegate. I noticed that if I build with development mode on, the app does not enter the delegate thus getting stuck in the checking of dependencies. When I turned off the development mode, it went fine. I'm not sure if there was something wrong with what I did back then but that was an empty project with just Firebase and Remote Config.

​@@chilldude000 I don't think there should be anything different. ContinueWith is provided by the system (if you're using the dotnet4 backend). It would still be worth trying with ContinueWithOnMainThread if you run into this again. But otherwise, always feel free to surface bugs on GitHub: github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues Or on the official support site: firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/report It's not that I don't want to help you (in fact, sometimes I'm the one responding there). But it's much easier to track issues, get repro steps, and keep communication going there!

I believe that the issue has been resolved by now with recent updates, but file a bug here if not: github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues

You can always file a feature request here: github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues My first approach would be to try to split the binary by architecture, and ensure that only the correct shared libraries get put into each package. This is also a great question for community support, which will be checked more often than my perusing old video comments (Sorry! 😢): firebase.google.com/support#ask-the-firebase-community

Sorry this took so long, but I've written a much more in-depth blog post just on keytool now to help out with this sort of thing! medium.com/firebase-developers/whats-keytool-why-can-t-it-be-found-and-why-does-firebase-even-want-a-sha-1-a3f568867a7b?source=friends_link&sk=2807ea8db8341a60ca80de582ac7c635 (I am copy/pasting this to all the related comments, just to make sure everyone gets appropriate notifications)

Same here, i'm using Unity 2019.3.6f1, also the packages are having some problems with the editor part giving me errors and i am not able to build and run anymore, just the build works and after build i had to manually install the app on my phone...

@@wilddev8993 This is the workaround that I found, posted on stackoverflow. stackoverflow.com/questions/60815398/how-to-use-firebase-messaging-for-android-with-unity-windows-version-2019-3-3f1?noredirect=1#comment107605248_60815398

You should open cmd in your ../jdk/bin file directory

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Only a few products require it, Authentication being the big one that stands out. But since security rules for Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Functions often rely on auth, you'll practically need to upload a sha-1 for most backend stuff.

There's a documentation page here: developers.google.com/android/guides/client-auth It should be distributed with the Java Runtime Environment. There's a good Stack Overflow link here: stackoverflow.com/questions/2997348/i-can-t-find-the-android-keytool/2998451 In general, I always have the JDK installed and in my path, so I forgot that I might need to work out how to find it. Sorry!

I'm so sorry I didn't see this comment before. This will likely resolve itself if you update your Firebase SDK, and if it doesn't asking on github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues or firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/report makes it much easier to debug your particular setup if necessary.

I'm using Rider ( www.jetbrains.com/rider/ ) out of personal preference (having done Android stuff for a long time, I'm used to IDEs like Android Studio -- I even use AppCode when doing native iOS work). Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio itself are both perfectly fine for Unity development (and my recent Firestore video used Code: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJuYZMWHrM7Zgp8.html )! I've also known devs to just use VIM or Emacs when doing Unity stuff, so it's just about finding a tool you like 😃

Found my mistake with the keytool, but it did not change anything. Still works in editor, but not on actual device...

Same problem, everything works when I run my app using editor but when I'm running the app to an actual device even my debug statements related to firebase are not showing :(

I just ran into this issue myself using the Java SDK and Android SDK shipped with Unity! It looks like it may be a Unity 2019 bug (I find that sometimes I have to do a build with the wrong [system] SDK then build again with the built in one to get stuff unstuck).

@@pux0r3 I find that copying the path, unchecking the recommended SDK and pasting the path in manually fixes the issue.. some sort of issue there with the preferences saving I'm assuming

@@pux0r3 I am also only using the stuff shipped with unity!

It's technically possible, although I've seen some reports about mismatched architectures (ie: try to make a 64 bit windows build), missing system dependencies (make sure you try on a clean install of windows before shipping!), and sometimes the google-services file not being found (my recommendation is usually to hard code the data). Always feel free to reach out on community support ( firebase.google.com/support#ask-the-firebase-community ) or file issues if you find them ( github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues ). Technically desktop support is beta and only intended for development -- so proceed with caution and definitely validate that everything works sooner than later (bugs on desktop will get triaged and added to the backlog, but won't always get priority given the beta/for development caveats)

same. In the documentation they say there's an issue with the 2020 version but that too is when you use the package manager. But here in the video, they are doing it using the manual way to avoid all that, yet it does not seem to work. I also get an error for some IOS dll's and I suppose that's because I build the app only for android but the google sdk provides everything?!

I am using Unity 2019 but in that also there are 0 users visible in the dashboard. I also get a warning in the unity console when running the game "DataBase URL not set in the FireBase config" . Can that be a problem? Did you solve the problem yet @Mirek ?

Hi! I wanna ask if you have already solved the problem in no. 2... I am also facing the same problem when i tried to build and run my game app on android phone but it works on unity editor...

@@ikee_2947 i don't exactly remember but it had started working after a day or so. I do remember getting user counts in the dashboard.

This is an excellent use case for Cloud Storage, for which I'm editing a video right now (no solid ETA though)!

@@pux0r3 hi! I have already solved that using firebase firestore. I'm storing the sprites in string format as raw texture data (byte[] array) converted to base 64 string. its easy to handle that this way.

@@pux0r3 i would have a question though, because when i was storing the byte[] array directly in a base, it then came out as a blob. how do you handle blob conversion back to byte[]? wasnt possible unfortunately

@@dawidpoleszczuk3477 I would probably approach it exactly as you have (conversion to/from some uuencoded string). Realtime Database data is transmitted as a string (as JSON afaik), which is exactly what uuencode (base64 encoded string) is designed to facilitate. Ostensibly, Cloud Storage is the tool designed to hold large binary blobs of data. So there are facilities to read/write byte[], Stream, File, &c. As long as your sprites are small in size, I don't see anything wrong with what you're doing (if you're encoding like 1024x1024 png images, maybe start considering putting references to Cloud Storage nodes in your Realtime Database though).

@@pux0r3 dont worry, these images are 16x16 pixels, so they're really tiny!

And yes, I added the script in the scene

same issue. nothing showed up in analytics.

I got the same issue

same problem :(

I have the same issue. Development build option disabled. SHA1 is there. downloaded json twice. No result. Building on Xiaomi Redmi 9S Android 10. Unity 2020.1.0b1380

Maybe it's because you didn't attach the script to any game object OR you have the 'Development Build' enabled in the build settings.

@@farrael_ Thank you. but it's not the issue

same with me

if you're not seeing the 1 user in last 30 mins, select "StreamView" it's in the same blue column.

I have the same problem (and also 0 in StreamView).

It's something I really want to see, but there's no official news at the time. I was a game dev before joining Firebase, so this is a topic close to my own heart!

@@pux0r3 Any update.. It's been a year now

The first time you set it up in a new project you have to enable Firebase Auth in the Firebase Console, including deciding which sign-in methods to use. After you've done that you don't need to run any other scripts.

Unfortunately, the Firebase SDK for Unity doesn't support Unity's WebGL target (the technical reason boils down to depending on some C++ stuff that can't easily be encapsulated for the web). I've seen some folks report success with binding directly to Firebase's client JavaScript SDK from Unity.

This may help: medium.com/firebase-developers/whats-keytool-why-can-t-it-be-found-and-why-does-firebase-even-want-a-sha-1-a3f568867a7b

There are a number of reasons. One is that Unity Package files can't represent dependencies, so every package has to include common components (such as FirebaseCore). Another is that every native library for every platform supported needs to be included with the library currently. This means that in addition to various iOS and Android architectures being supported, MacOS, Windows, and Linux support need to ship so that Firebase works in the Editor. If you use the new UnityPackageManager integration, it's a little more streamlined but the SDKs do still have to live somewhere (in this case, in the Library directory - which likely isn't committed to VCS). I know that it's not quite the answer you want, but there is a reason. The local (and platform native) libraries are really what make Firebase shine (deep os integration on iOS and Android for instance), but the size is the cost of that.

On windows, I go to where my JDK is installed -> Windows -> bin -> Start CMD here

It's probably my favorite terminal emulator for demo purposes. It both defaults to a giant presentation friendly font and looks hyper cool! github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

I also use the fish shell fishshell.com/ with "oh my fish" github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish

@@pux0r3 Please can you give more information? how i open that files downloaded from github? We are not experts on this. I need some kind of program (console) to type that? or i can use an scripting program? or wht?

@@armagedoomodbong Oooh, you're asking about the keytool command itself? Sorry, I completely misunderstood! You will need to type it into a terminal, and where it is and how you run it will vary based on your OS. See @Ananki's comment below for how they found it or this Stack Overflow answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/2997348/i-can-t-find-the-android-keytool/2998451 As for why it worked on my machine, keytool ships with Java Development Kit (JDK), which I've added to my $PATH variable as instructed here: docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/install/overview-jdk-installation.html I 100% didn't realize that this wasn't just setup -_-

Unfortunately Firebase's Desktop support is still beta, and Analytics is not one of the even beta supported features: firebase.google.com/docs/cpp/setup#libraries-desktop As for Rift, I personally own a Quest (and a DK2! I really dig VR) and really want to explore Firebase on it. It doesn't ship with Google Play Services, so I need to one day work out what does and doesn't work, and whether it's worth trying to build the desktop version of Firebase's C++ SDK for that platform. Definitely drop me a line if this is something you try to do and run into any hiccups (I regularly check StackOver for issues with the firebase and unity3d tags [stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firebase+unity3d] and I'm fairly active on Twitter as @pux0r3)! Finally, for Analytics, Firebase doesn't break out the Desktop platform in the dashboard. There's more work that needs to be done for this to be supported to the desired level of quality that apply across the various product versions. This is in no way supported or recommended, but I have heard of other people using the Analytics Web API to support analytics in Firebase. For all these things I say that Firebase doesn't have yet, I would love to drum up more interest around. It helps a ton if you file a feature request: firebase.google.com/support or even a bug on the Firebase C++ github.com/firebase/firebase-cpp-sdk/issues and/or Unity github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues issues list. Not only does this make it easier to get resources for new features, but it means that I can pretend to work whilst playing beat saber at my desk!

@@pux0r3 again any update. It's been a year

@Patrick Martin how do we do this for a desktop app?

how you writh the symbol before the /.andoird

So, opening a terminal differs on every operating system. On Windows, you can press windows+r and type cmd, or look for a program called Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. On MacOS, I usually press command+space and type terminal (there should be a program called terminal), although I like to use iTerm. On Linux, it depends on your environment. In Gnome, you usually use Gterm, Kde Kterm, LXDE lxterm, and generally xterm is available on most Linux setups. For the tilde ~. On a standard US keyboard, it's on the same key as the backtick: `. You should be able to press shift+` to get ~ (this is the key above tab and below escape). I cannot speak to other keyboard layouts (sorry!), but ~ in most operating systems means "my home directory." I would estimate that 90% of the time when you open a terminal you will be in your home directory already, so you can type .android without the ~/. This is dangerous if your terminal opens anywhere else or you've changed directory (cd). I hope this all helps! I also suspect that you'll run into the keytool error. See @ananki's comment below. I might need to figure out a way to patch this video.

@@pux0r3 ok thanks!

@nio2edward Yeah but there is never a "you would have to do x differently on Windows" or an alternative video. At least put it in the titles so that the majority of Unity developers not using mac know that it's not for them.

@nio2edward I would appreciate a mention of the differences. Like "there will be an extra step called x on windows/linux". It wold allow me to look up what's missing on my own.