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1. Flutter Environment Setup

Note: Flutter sdk version 3.3.8 is recommended to run project

2. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/TheAlphamerc/flutter_twitter_clone.git
$ cd flutter_twitter_clone/

3. Setup the firebase app

1. You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
2. Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable Google authentication.

• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "sign-in method" tab
• Click "Google" and enable it
• Click "Email/Password" and enable it

3. Enable the Firebase Database

• Go to the Firebase Console
• Click "Database" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "Create Database" button
• It will prompt you to set up, rules, for the sake of simplicity, let us choose test mode, for now.
• On the next screen select any of the locations you prefer.

4. (skip if not running on Android)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name > com.thealphamerc.flutter_twitter_clone_dev
• Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:

keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

• In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking "Add Fingerprint".

5. Enable firebase storage (otherwise storing images will not work)
6. Add "FcmServerKey" to Firebase Remote Config Follow below steps to get FCM server key.

• Open your project in firebase.
• Click on gear icon in sidebar. A popup will open then click on project settings

• Open Cloud messaging tab

• You can get FCM server key from there

• Go to firebase remote config
• Create parameter with name FcmServerKey
• Add below json to default value field.

     {
          "key": "FCM server key here"
     } 

Check below firebase config screenshot

7 Add another parameter in remote config to get the latest app version and supported builds

This step is optional for development mode.

• Open Remote Config section in fireabse.
• Add supportedBuild as parameter key and below JSON in Default value.
• Copy app version and build no. from pubspec.yaml

Replace <App version> and <Build no.> in below JSON content with actual value and add this in default value field as per below screenshot.

 {
   "name":"<App Version>",
   "versions":[<Build no.>]
  }

After adding supportedBuild key click on Publish Change button

• Download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into /android/app/.

7. (skip if not running on iOS)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for iOS, with your app package name
• Follow instructions to download GoogleService-Info.plist
• Open XCode, right click the Runner folder, select the "Add Files to 'Runner'" menu, and select the GoogleService-Info.plist file to add it to /ios/Runner in XCode
• Open /ios/Runner/Info.plist in a text editor. Locate the CFBundleURLSchemes key. The second item in the array value of this key is specific to the Firebase instance. Replace it with the value for REVERSED_CLIENT_ID from GoogleService-Info.plist