We really need to deprecate Firebase. We are using an SDK from before
Firebase was bought by Google. Google deprecated that SDK in favor of
embedding Firebase support in Google Play Services. This may easily
have been 10 year ago!
Fortunately the ”wire” protocol has not changed in an incompatible
way, but I fear we are living on borrowed time!
We never updated our Firebase component to use Google Play Services
because it (Google Play Services) isn’t available on every platform.
For many applications CloudDB is a viable alternative.
-Jeff