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Firebase App Distribution makes distributing your apps to trusted testers painless.

Firebase App Distribution helps get your apps onto testing devices quickly, you can get feedback early and often. If you use Crashlytics in your apps, you’ll automatically get stability metrics for all your builds, so you know when you’re ready to ship.

Currently Firebase App Distribution is a beta release. This means that the functionality might change in backward-incompatible ways. A beta release is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy and may receive limited or no support.

Firebase App Distribution can be used with both iOS and Android. There are different ways to distribute your apps:

IOS:

Distribute IOS apps with console

Distribute IOS apps with cli

Distribute IOS apps with fastlane

Android:

Distribute Android apps with console

Dsitribute Android apps with cli

Distribute Android apps with fastlane

Distribute Android apps with gradle

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Using Firebase App Distribution service is resulting in app not installed error

I'm using the Firebase app distribution service for the Android platform. For automatic distributions, I've set up the Gradle file according to the steps mentioned in the docs. The setup and auth are successful. The distribution is also successful.…
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Is there a command to get latest build number from Firebase App Distribution just like TestFlight latest_testflight_build_number?

latest_testflight_build_number allows easy build number bump example increment_build_number({ build_number: latest_testflight_build_number + 1 }) Is there something similar for Firebase App Distribution? For example, I've uploaded a build…
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Testers could not download app from Firebase App Distribution

We pushed iOS app to Firebase distribution and sent invitations to every tester. Our testers followed all steps and get ready to test the app. Unfortunately, the testers get the message “ The developer needs to update their app so that it can run on…
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Firebase App Distribution - "Waiting for developer" message

I'm developing an iOS application and using App Distribution to distribute my test releases to QA Team, I didn't had any problem before, everything was smooth and pretty (estrange considering iOS development hehe)... but recently I face a problem…
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AppDistribution Gradle plugin with Gradle 7

I am using Android Gradle Plugin version 7.0.0-alpha14 and Gradle version 7.0 and when I try to upload the app to app distribution through the Gradle plugin version 2.1.0 it fails on a task app:appDistributionUploadDebug with an error > Task…
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Firebase app distribution via Fastlane "the server responded with status 403"

I setup Firebase app distribution feature in Fastlane Fastfile to distribute beta version of my iOS app. It was working fine but It suddenly started showing errors. This is how my lane looks like. lane :distribute_beta do |options| …
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Firebase App Distribution - No "install" button on Google Play window

I am deploying an aab with Firebase App Distribution to testers in my company for the first time. Devices not any worries while others ... Some are blocked on the download window without having any buttons. The problem persists even after clearing…
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firebaseAppDistribution with Github Actions throwing error "Missing app id", even with google services plugin set

I'm implementing app distribution for android with github actions, everything seems to be okay but I'm getting an error: * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:appDistributionUploadQaRelease'. > Missing app id. Please check that it was…
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Android Firebase app distribution - Service credentials file does not exist. Please check the service credentials path and try again

I'm trying to migrate from Crashlytics Beta to Firebase App Distribution. CircleCi in the Middle. The build failes in CircleCi with the following error: What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':FiverrApp:appDistributionUploadRelease'. …
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How do I disable email notifications for Firebase App Distribution

I have just tried switching from Fabric/Crashlytics Beta to Firebase App Distribution for distributing my Android app to testers. I do so using the Gradle plugin as described…
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Developer mode required to open app from firebase App Distribution, iOS 16

We use Firebase App Distribution to share app with testers and customers, but now they're getting a "Developer mode required" message. Perhaps someone has had such a situation and you know how to fix it, we know that we can switch on the developer…
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App Bundles with Firebase app distribution

so currently we are exporting APK to the play store and we are using Firebase app distribution for our testing track but now we want to start using App bundles instead of APK but the issue here that Firebase app distribution does not support App…
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Firebase - App Distribution failed to fetch app information: [403] The caller does not have permission

I was working on Firebase App Distribution using gradle. I already followed all steps from this firebase official link and it still doesn't work. When I run this ./gradlew assembleDemoDebug appDistributionUploadDemoDebug, it always return this error…
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Firebase App Distribution emails not sent to testers

We have been using Firebase App Distribution for a while now, via Fastlane plugin: fastlane-plugin-firebase_app_distribution 0.2.3 fastlane version 2.160.0 Uploading the build in the Fastfile: firebase_app_distribution( app:…
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Firebase iOS Distribution Faraday server error 403

I'm using Circle-Ci and Firebase App Distribution for our Continuous Distribution Every thing was working perfectly until today I'm receiving the below error: [10:52:11]: --- Step: firebase_app_distribution --- [10:52:11]:…
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