[FEATURE] Support user-configurable Firebase SDK component versions on iOS

[dpa99c]

Currently this plugin supports user-configurable version overrides for the Android Firebase SDK components pulled in via Gradle by using Cordova plugin variables set at plugin install time.

However, currently Cordova doesn't support the use of plugin variables in plugin podspecs for iOS so the same can't be done for the iOS Firebase SDK components out-of-the-box.

But it may be possible to implement an emulation of this using plugin hook scripts to extract the version values from plugin variables and apply them directly to the iOS platform project to allow user-configurable overrides to also work for iOS.

[dpa99c]

BTW this would make it easier to resolve issues such as #232 by manually setting the SDK component versions.

[dpa99c]

Support for plugin variables in podspecs for iOS has been added to cordova-ios in this PR.

At this time, the change is on the master branch but has not been released to npm in the latest release version [email protected].

When this change is released in the next cordova-ios release, this plugin can make use of it to define default versions for iOS Firebase SDK components in the podspec which can overridden by plugin variables, in the same way it does for Gradle artefact versions on Android.

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[dpa99c]

Reopening as stalebot incorrectly closed it

[TiBz0u]

Hi @dpa99c, thanks for the new feature in the 14.2.0
(iOS) feat: add support for IOS_FIREBASE_SDK_VERSION plugin variable to override the Firebase iOS SDK versions specified in plugin.xml

I'm wondering if we can align Android & iOS with the preference tag following the PR GH-754 present in the version 6.x of cordova-ios.

Maybe there was a specific reason of the JS hook

Thanks