I'm working on a project where we have an Android tablet that cannot have google play services installed on it. Which features/services of firebase have a dependency on google play services to run?
Specifically I'm looking at real-time database, authentication, firestore, and firebase cloud messaging.
I spoke with a developer advocate that said that real-time database doesn't have that dependency, but I couldn't find any official documentation that states that.
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Some Firebase products require Google Play Services, while others don't. Information on this is nowadays included in the Firebase documentation, so I recommend checking out dependencies of Firebase Android SDKs on Google Play services for the latest list.
You can see it from the documentation.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/android-play-services
I managed to run my app after migrating to non play services Firebase Auth, while the database and storage continue to work fine.
Google Pay service can basically installed apps in its sore onto the device, if you cannot use this you would need to make the app as a "progressive web app" instead then. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
Effectively what you can do through a webpage, using firebase hosting/firebaseDB/storage you would want to simply install a npm i -g firebase-tools do a firebase init in your project folder and configure your firebase settings to use your apps distribution folder for AnglularCLI the public folder would be "dist"
with the old versioning, play-services-base and play-services-auth were required; eg. to use FirebaseAuth with a Google account. the documentation only states firebase-core (checked that yesterday, because of a similar dependency question). but most likely, the "Login with Google" auth-provider might not be available then - and you would have to offer alternate ways to register an account.
