Description
Description
First of all, let's define some terminology. I will refer to:
- a "SwiftUI app" an app that declares its entry point as being the implementation of the
SwiftUI.App
protocol, it being marked by the new@main
annotation; This app can still haveAppDelegate
andSceneDelegate
implementations, but those will not be the entry point of the application;
Using FirebaseApp
in a "SwiftUI app" is very confusing and there is no guidance as to where to correctly place the FirebaseApp.configure()
method call and more importantly, why place it where it should be placed.
Some of my observations from placing the FirebaseApp.configure()
call in different places:
Configuration
FirebaseApp.configure()
in the App's
init
method
Works, but some of the components from Firebase
are reliant on the UIApplication.shared
instance, which is not initialized at the time of the call; ❌
Setup:
@main
struct FirebaseShowcaseApp: App {
init() {
FirebaseApp.configure()
}
var body: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
ContentView()
}
}
}
Concrete issue example from FIRAuth.protectedDataInitialization
:
UIApplication *application = [applicationClass sharedApplication];
if (application) {
// Initialize for phone number auth.
strongSelf->_tokenManager = [[FIRAuthAPNSTokenManager alloc] initWithApplication:application];
strongSelf->_appCredentialManager =
[[FIRAuthAppCredentialManager alloc] initWithKeychain:strongSelf->_keychainServices];
strongSelf->_notificationManager = [[FIRAuthNotificationManager alloc]
initWithApplication:application
appCredentialManager:strongSelf->_appCredentialManager];
}
at this time and point, as far as I could investigate and test, the application is NULL
and that doesn't seem to change during the lifetime of the app in this setup.
Obs: swizzling on/ off does not solve the behaviour described.
FirebaseApp.configure()
in UIApplicationDelegate.application(_, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
Solves the problem described above since at init time the UIApplication.shared
exists. But this is where the discussion gets interesting.
- with swizzling disabled everything works as expected; ✅
- with swizzling enabled, the
UIApplicationDelegate
methods do not get correctly called; ❌ the investigation that led me to this conclusion is thetap DynamicLink -> app not installed -> install app -> navigate to the actual deeplink
scenario. I was simply not getting theUIApplicationDelegate.application(_:open:options:)
or any other method, for what is worth, called. A couple of hours later and down the rabbit hole I have discovered thatSwiftUI
creates its ownAppDelegate
wrapper over the actualMyAppDelegate
declared in my application like:
@UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(MyAppDelegate.self) var delegate
The wrapper class is: SwiftUI.AppDelegate
. which looks like:
<SwiftUI.AppDelegate: 0x2839f6520>
- super: UIResponder
- super: NSObject
▿ fallbackDelegate: Optional(<MyApp.MyAppDelegate: 0x2822cdac0>)
- mainMenuController: nil
▿ appNavigationAuthority: SwiftUI.AppNavigationAuthority
The issue with this wrapper class is that it's not fully interoperable with Objective-C runtime
causing the swizzling
to fail.
Reproducing the issue
Obs: does not seem to be an iOS specific issue since it doesn't work on iOS 15 or iOS 16 either.
Reproduction steps:
- create
SwiftUI
application; - add Firebase;
- create
@UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate)
; - call
FirebaseApp.configure()
fromUIApplicationDelegate.application(_, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
;
Firebase SDK Version
9.6.0
Xcode Version
14.0.1
Installation Method
Swift Package Manager
Firebase Product(s)
Analytics, Authentication, Database, DynamicLinks, Firestore, Functions, Remote Config
Targeted Platforms
iOS
Relevant Log Output
Setup: FirebaseApp.configure()
called in from a SwiftUI app
from UIApplicationDelegate.application(_, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)
.
From: GULAppDelegateSwizzler.createSubclassWithObject:(id<GULApplicationDelegate>)appDelegate just before
objc_setAssociatedObject(appDelegate, &kGULRealIMPBySelectorKey,
[realImplementationsBySelector copy], OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC);
(lldb) po realImplementationsBySelector
{
"application:continueUserActivity:restorationHandler:" = "{length = 8, bytes = 0x0000000000000000}";
"application:handleEventsForBackgroundURLSession:completionHandler:" = "{length = 8, bytes = 0x0000000000000000}";
"application:openURL:options:" = "{length = 8, bytes = 0x0000000000000000}";
"application:openURL:sourceApplication:annotation:" = "{length = 8, bytes = 0x0000000000000000}";
}
If using Swift Package Manager, the project's Package.resolved
Expand Package.resolved
snippet
{
"pins" : [
{
"identity" : "abseil-cpp-swiftpm",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/firebase/abseil-cpp-SwiftPM.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "583de9bd60f66b40e78d08599cc92036c2e7e4e1",
"version" : "0.20220203.2"
}
},
{
"identity" : "appauth-ios",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/openid/AppAuth-iOS.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "3d36a58a2b736f7bc499453e996a704929b25080",
"version" : "1.6.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "boringssl-swiftpm",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/firebase/boringssl-SwiftPM.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "dd3eda2b05a3f459fc3073695ad1b28659066eab",
"version" : "0.9.1"
}
},
{
"identity" : "firebase-ios-sdk",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "7e80c25b51c2ffa238879b07fbfc5baa54bb3050",
"version" : "9.6.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "googleappmeasurement",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/GoogleAppMeasurement.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "c1cfde8067668027b23a42c29d11c246152fe046",
"version" : "9.6.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "googledatatransport",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/GoogleDataTransport.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "5056b15c5acbb90cd214fe4d6138bdf5a740e5a8",
"version" : "9.2.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "googlesignin-ios",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/GoogleSignIn-iOS",
"state" : {
"revision" : "9450e779619fc184d360c9f7ce61023587f7e1f4",
"version" : "6.2.2"
}
},
{
"identity" : "googleutilities",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/GoogleUtilities.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "22907832079d808e82f1182b21af58ef3880666f",
"version" : "7.8.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "grpc-ios",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/grpc/grpc-ios.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "8440b914756e0d26d4f4d054a1c1581daedfc5b6",
"version" : "1.44.3-grpc"
}
},
{
"identity" : "gtm-session-fetcher",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/gtm-session-fetcher.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "4e9bbf2808b8fee444e84a48f5f3c12641987d3e",
"version" : "1.7.2"
}
},
{
"identity" : "gtmappauth",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/GTMAppAuth.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "6dee0cde8a1b223737a5159e55e6b4ec16bbbdd9",
"version" : "1.3.1"
}
},
{
"identity" : "leveldb",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/firebase/leveldb.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "0706abcc6b0bd9cedfbb015ba840e4a780b5159b",
"version" : "1.22.2"
}
},
{
"identity" : "nanopb",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/firebase/nanopb.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "819d0a2173aff699fb8c364b6fb906f7cdb1a692",
"version" : "2.30909.0"
}
},
{
"identity" : "promises",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/google/promises.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "3e4e743631e86c8c70dbc6efdc7beaa6e90fd3bb",
"version" : "2.1.1"
}
},
{
"identity" : "swift-protobuf",
"kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
"location" : "https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf.git",
"state" : {
"revision" : "b8230909dedc640294d7324d37f4c91ad3dcf177",
"version" : "1.20.1"
}
}
],
"version" : 2
}