Cloud Firestore Unity Bindings

[Alex Ferrier]

Are there plans to build a Unity bridge to Cloud Firestore? We can obviously build such a thing internally by bridging ObjC/Java to C#, but it seems wasteful to roll our own if there are plans for such a thing in the foreseeable future. 

[Michael Lehenbauer]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the feedback. We're considering C++ and Unity support for Cloud Firestore but we can't share a timeline yet. If you need something in the short-term, then doing your own bridging makes sense. Sorry!

-Michael

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Alex Ferrier <al...@nanuinteractive.com> wrote:

Are there plans to build a Unity bridge to Cloud Firestore? We can obviously build such a thing internally by bridging ObjC/Java to C#, but it seems wasteful to roll our own if there are plans for such a thing in the foreseeable future. 

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[Nicklas Ruiterman]

Hi,

any updates on this?

started writing a bridge and realized i'm not going to be able to do in-editor testing like with the Realtime Database

Cheers,

Nicklas

On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 7:14:58 AM UTC+13, Michael Lehenbauer wrote:

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the feedback. We're considering C++ and Unity support for Cloud Firestore but we can't share a timeline yet. If you need something in the short-term, then doing your own bridging makes sense. Sorry!

-Michael

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Alex Ferrier <al...@nanuinteractive.com> wrote:

Are there plans to build a Unity bridge to Cloud Firestore? We can obviously build such a thing internally by bridging ObjC/Java to C#, but it seems wasteful to roll our own if there are plans for such a thing in the foreseeable future. 

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[Samuel Stern]

Hi Nicklas,

Still no timeline we can share but we are definitely making progress here, if we have any announcements to make we'll share them on this mailing list.

- Sam

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[Nicklas Ruiterman]

Looking forward to it, Thanks Sam

[Derek Arndt]

We have a Unity game that we've been using Realtime Database in that's unreleased. The game may benefit from a number aspects of Cloud Firestore including lowering our costs, scaling more gracefully, and because it's smarter with queries could allow us to offer features we wouldn't otherwise. Firestore could be a big upgrade for us. Unfortunately we're late in development and only have a short window to determine if we should switch or stick with Realtime Database for the lifetime of the game.

Is there a beta of the updated Unity plugin we could help test? Otherwise has anyone written basic bindings (all we're doing are simple player JSON blob fetching and saving)?  

Thanks!

[Ashley]

Hey Nicklas,

If you wouldn't mind explaining, how could I go about writing my own Unity bridge to firestore? I see that there are already C# methods in firestore since this is an option in the documentation, but how would one import, or create and import, a reference to this package in order to use it in Unity? Would I have to create my own .unitypackage? O.o

[Samuel Stern]

Hi all,

I just want to point out that while we do have a C# SDK available now, it's likely not what you want for Unity games for a few reasons:

1. It is a server SDK which means it needs service account credentials to work and does not interact with security rules.  It's almost never a good idea to deploy service account credentials to end-user devices, although it could be appropriate in more secure circumstances (like an arcade game with a locked-down machine).
2. It does not yet support real-time listens, only get()/set()/etc.

There is no Unity SDK in alpha/beta right now so there is not much to share.  We are working on a C++ core for our SDKs that will enable us to support more platforms and may eventually power something like the Unity SDK, but that's still a ways off.

- Sam

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[Timo B. Weiße]

Thanks for the great features Firebase for Unity already supports!

Would be great to use Firestore with offline support in Unity anytime within the next years. xD

[Nicklas Ruiterman]

hi Ashley, went through my first attempt at a bridge using the REST API ... it's just not the same as having an active client server connection like with the Firebase Real Time database (FirebaseDatabase.unitypackage) ... 

those c# examples use a different .NET version than the one supported in Unity

also tried working around that and it didn't go so well...

so for now working on other projects while eagerly anticipating official Firestore Unity support

[Jay]

Hi Sam, any update on Unity SDK for Firestore will be very helpful.

We have major funded project being developed on Unity Firebase which we would like to move to Unity Firestore.

- Jay

[Andreas Partenhauser]

+1 for Unity SDK for Firestore :)

[Luis Sierra]

+1 for this too, although i understand it's not going to be available any time soon.

[Garry Clark]

+1 for Firestore Unity SDK. Was sad to learn it had not been implemented yet. Have made great progress with Unity and the other FireBase apps. Just missing FireStore!!!!

[Garry Clark]

Any progress updates on this? :)

[Alan Lawrance]

Just adding another +1 for a potential customer interested in Unity and Cloud FireStore.

[Luigi Lescarini]

+1

[高取泰洋]

+1

2017年10月6日金曜日 2時20分37秒 UTC+9 Alex Ferrier:

[Legolas]

+1 

[Yasuhiro Takatori]

+1

2019年5月25日土曜日 3時38分43秒 UTC+9 Legolas:

[Naren Keshav]

For people who might be interested. I found this. 

Accessing FireStore using REST API in Unity. 

https://github.com/rotolonico/Firebase-Database-Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz0Sl4tW5O0

Would love to know what the firebase guys think about this. 

Thanks, 

Naren

[楊漢軒]

Thanks for sharing. +1 still waiting Firestore.

Naren Keshav於 2019年5月29日星期三 UTC+8下午10時52分57秒寫道：

[Stewart Miles]

https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/tree/master/firestore/testapp ?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 7:23 AM Philipp Lenssen <philipp...@gmail.com> wrote:

I suppose this still isn't available? I've integrated the Unity Firestore SDK but have a hard time finding actual (Unity) examples for it.

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