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Reputation: 907

Firebase remote config condition by userId

I integrated Firebase into my Android project, to get a different parameter value for different application user. I did the following:

  1. Setup users in my Firebase Projectenter image description here
  2. Created audiences to match the users: enter image description here UIDs were AAAAAAA..., and BBBBBBB... accordingly.
  3. Created a parameter in Remote Config section:enter image description here
  4. Added conditions for this parameter: enter image description here and set values for the conditions: enter image description here

  5. Entered the following code to sign in the user from the application:

    Task resultTask =   
    firebaseAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword("[email protected]", password);
  6. Made sure sign in was successful.
  7. Then I tried to fetch the remote config parameter: 
    firebaseRemoteConfig.fetch() 
                .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task task) {
                        if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                            // Once the config is successfully fetched it must be activated before newly fetched
                            // values are returned.
                            firebaseRemoteConfig.activateFetched();
                            Log.d(TAG, firebaseRemoteConfig.getString("MyParameter"));
                        } else {
                            Log.d(TAG, "fetch firebase remote config failed. Reason = " + task.getException());
                        }
                    }
                });

The result was that I always got the default value: DefaultValue

What did I do wrong? What did I miss?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 9776

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 907

After some investigation I figured that Firebase Analytics and Firebase Authentication are 2 different modules which don't automatically inter-connect.

Using Firebase Authentication did not automatically identify the user as part of the particular audience, as I expected.

I needed to tell Firebase Analytics, that the current user has the specific user ID, so it can match it to the relevant audience. I added the following code to the sign-in onComplete callback:

Task<AuthResult> resultTask =   
    firebaseAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword("[email protected]", password); 
resultTask.addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
            // Task completed successfully
            if (task.isSuccessful()) {
               firebaseAnalytics.setUserId(task.getResult().getUser().getUid());
            } else {
                Log.d(TAG, "signInWithEmail firebase failed");
            }
        }
    });

The important line is: 

firebaseAnalytics.setUserId(task.getResult().getUser().getUid());

Some things to note:

  1. Once a user is in an audience it can never exit the audience, which means, if you change the user in the app from the same device, you will get a match to 2 audiences: The new audience, and the previous one.
  2. While testing this I had to fetch the remote config parameter very frequently. Although I set the cache expiration to 0, I had a different problem: The Firebase server responded sometime with throttling exception. So, while testing make sure not to throttle the server or you'll have to wait a long time between tests.
  3. I'm not sure, but it seams that Firebase Analytics keeps track of the app user with a different id then the one defined with Firebase Authentication. I think, this is why if you sign-in with different user id in Firebase Authentication from the same device, you still match to the audience that was setup for the previuos Firebase user ID.

Upvotes: 15

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