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El_Loco
El_Loco

Reputation: 1866

Firebase analytics shows activity in other countries

I am currently developing an app and I have an alpha release in Google play with associated testers and it is only available in Sweden.

I use Firebase to store data on a server for each user and I also use Firebase to login.

According to the authorization and database in my FireBase console, I am the only one who has tested it. However, in the analtyics, it says there has been activity in the United States! How is this possible? Is it something with Firebase's servers?

I thought about the rules for my database, I have the following:

{
  "rules": {
    // Give any logged in user admission to "users" so that they can create a new entrance for themselves
      ".write": "auth != null",
    ".read": "auth != null",
        "users": {
        "$user_id": {
            // Grants write access to the owner of this user account
          // whose uid must exactly match the key ($user_id)
         ".write": "$user_id === auth.uid && auth != null",
            ".read": "$user_id === auth.uid && auth != null"
        } 
        }
    }
}

Is something missing? The purpose is that only users that are signed in can write to the database and only to their specific folder.

I also have inAppSubscription which I tested yesterday, maybe that triggers something that makes it look like it appears in the US?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 534

Answers (1)

Bob Snyder
Bob Snyder

Reputation: 38299

One possibility is that you enabled Pre-launch Report generation for your app. You can confirm that by looking at the Pre-launch Report page in your Google Play Console. Look for it under Release Management.

When you enable Pre-launch Report, each release of your app is run on a small number (~10) of devices using Firebase Test Lab. This occurs even for alpha release and interal test tracks.

Pre-launch reports: Summarizes the issues found when your alpha or beta test apps are tested automatically for device compatibility, display issues, and security vulnerabilities on a wide range of devices in Firebase Test Lab.

In your case, the Test Lab devices may be located in the US.

More details on Pre-launch Report here.

Upvotes: 1

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