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I'm trying to upload IPA and APK files of a Flutter app to Firebase App Distribution using fastlane.

First time I deploy, both IPA and APK files were successfully uploaded to App Distribution. But after the first time, every time I deploy, the APK file is uploaded but the IPA is not uploaded, even though terminal shows that fastlane uploaded the IPA successfully.

Why is this happening and how can I fix this?

android

iOS

terminal

Whezer
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Your releases might be grouped under the first release so it would not show on the Firebase Console.

Checkout this comment on an issue on the fastlane repo with an explanation:

For background, App Distribution has a notion of releases and binaries. For iOS, we uniquely identify a release by its version information (CFBundleVersion, CFBundleShortVersionString) and a hash of just the app code. This hash excludes resource files such as the provisioning profile. A binary is uniquely identified by a hash of the IPA, including its resource files. For iOS ad-hoc distributions, it's common for releases to have multiple binaries associated with them since it's normal for developers to upload the same code with an updated provisioning profile to give testers access.

In the Firebase Console, the cards you see are releases. So what may be happening is that you're uploading a build with no code changes. If this is the case, a new release won't be visible in the Firebase Console but the binary will be available for your testers to download.

Victor Eronmosele
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Double check that you've completed the steps in this answer to enable auto-versioning - https://stackoverflow.com/a/63914373/12806961.

In my case I had manually changed the iOS build number so even though I was passing a --build-number argument to the flutter build ipa command, it was using the old value when I uploaded to Firebase App Distribution.

I needed to update my info.plist to look like this:

<dict>
  ...
  <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
  <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER)</string>
  <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
  <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME)</string>
  ...
</dict>
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