Firebase-ios-sdk: Binary Firebase Frameworks for tvOS

[dpott197]

Describe your environment

• Xcode version: 11.3
• Firebase SDK version: 6.14
• Firebase Component: Analytics
• Component version: 6.14

Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

Are there Firebase Frameworks specifically built for tvOS like https://firebase.google.com/download/ios? Right now, I am trying to use Firebase without CocoaPods. I have been successfully linking Crashlytics and Fabric frameworks without issue. When I attempt to link Firebase, I get the following error...

ld: in FirebaseAnalytics/FirebaseCore.framework/FirebaseCore(FIRAnalyticsConfiguration.o), building for tvOS, but linking in object file (FirebaseAnalytics/FirebaseCore.framework/FirebaseCore(FIRAnalyticsConfiguration.o)) built for iOS, file 'Firebase/ios/FirebaseAnalytics/FirebaseCore.framework/FirebaseCore' for architecture arm64

Relevant Code:

        #-----------------------------------------------------------------
        # Include FirebaseCore Framework
        set(FIREBASE_CORE_FRAMEWORK_PATH ${PATH_TO_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS}/FirebaseCore.framework)
        set(FIREBASE_CORE_HEADERS_PATH ${FIREBASE_CORE_FRAMEWORK_PATH}/Headers)

        add_library(firebasecore STATIC IMPORTED)
        set_property(TARGET firebasecore PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION ${FIREBASE_CORE_FRAMEWORK_PATH}/FirebaseCore)
        target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC firebasecore)
        include_directories(SYSTEM ${FIREBASE_CORE_HEADERS_PATH})

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[paulb777]

We don't support binary distributions for tvOS.

Details about tvOS support at https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#tvos-macos-and-catalyst

[jasonhowk-mlb]

So this should also rule out using the google provided Carthage binaries then on tvOS as well, correct?

[paulb777]

Yep, same story for Carthage. However, it might not be too hard to add tvOS support to the ZipBuilder here and we would accept PRs.

[vijayviswas]

+1. I would like to have tvOS carthage for .framework files as my company security didnt approve CocoaPods and my project runs in Xcode 11 with "legacy build " config so can't use xcFramework

[gangadharbonda]

We also require the similar support for tvOS and trying to look for options but could not succeed. At last, I tried to add the project files and then tried to move on

[vijayviswas]

@gangadharbonda Can explain in more detail like which are the framework source files needed to be added to tvos project?

[vijayviswas]

@paulb777 Is there any progress on this as some of my client tVOS apps cant leverage crash reporting due to this

[paulb777]

@vijayviswas We don't have near term plans for this. The best near term approach would be to build it yourself. We would consider a PR as well.

[vijayviswas]

@paulb777 - Is the pod for analytics for tvOS? I tried below in tvOS cocopods and it doesnt install any pods. All other pods are installed. As there are no "Analytics" pods I dont see any "crash free user" data in tvOS firebase crashlytics portal.
pod 'Firebase/Analytics'

To see this data, make sure your app has Google Analytics for Firebase and the latest Firebase Crashlytics SDK.

[paulb777]

@vijayviswas We do not currently support Analytics for tvOS. see #2011

[JavanPoirier]

Hello folks, I got Crashlytics working on tvOS without Cocoapods or XCFramework bundles. You can read the story here: https://medium.com/@Javan.Poirier/integrating-firebase-crashlytics-for-tvos-without-cocoapods-or-xcframework-support-a8f4b389c7c2

[paulb777]

We're planning to add tvOS and macOS to the zip distribution in the next release for the Firebase products that support those platforms.

[dpott197]

Thank you!

[paulb777]

Available in today's 7.4.0 release - https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/releases/tag/7.4.0