Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
by nihonde on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:42AM
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Understood. Dependency management for iOS is generally pretty terrible, in my experience. I suppose Apple will step in soon, and I hope they do a nice job of it.
Anyway, I continue to use (and enjoy using) Firebase for iOS and web.
First off, I'm glad you like the new feature additions. We'd love to hear your feedback on Storage and FCM :)
Secondly, I'd love Carthage support as well, but there are a few things (built into Carthage) that prevent us from adding this: 1. Carthage requires iOS 8+ (dynamic frameworks only). Firebase supports 7+, and we build static "frameworks", so we'd lose that (which is still relevant in a lot of our developers). 2. Carthage is designed for open source (git based origins only), and while we'd love to get there, we currently ship everything as a pre-built framework.