Firebase MacOS 11 Support

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Does Firestore informally support MacOS 11?

If so where are these resources?

I found other S.O. answers on Firestore about MacOS – but none which discuss MacOS 11.

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Firestore does not have any Macos native libraries. On all platforms that do not have native support, you can use the Firestore REST API to directly read and write documents.

See the documentation for a comprehensive list of what is supported..

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Both Firebase Real Time Database as well as Firestore work on macOS.

We use it daily and in fact most of the coding answers we post here on SO come from macOS apps.

Firebase dropped official support for macOS at version 3, much to the chagrin of all of us desktop developers. Fortunately there is community support for it.

If you want to give it a spin, here's a podfile for 10.14 and above

project 'YourFirestoreProject.xcodeproj'

platform :osx, '10.14'

target 'YourFirestoreProject.xcodeproj' do
   use_frameworks!

   pod 'Firebase' #probably no longer needed
   pod 'Firebase/Auth'
   pod 'Firebase/Database'
   pod 'Firebase/Firestore'
   pod 'Firebase/Storage'
   pod 'FirebaseFirestoreSwift'
end

Something to keep in mind is that iOS and macOS app loading sequence is different. You'll need to initialize Firebase in viewDidLoad instead of the appDelegate. Other than that, it works.

There's a huge market for Handoff style applications and we sure wish Firebase were on that bandwagon and officially support macOS in their SDK

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