Could not find a valid GoogleService-Info.plist in your project

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Hello,

I am having trouble building my iOS app using Ionic Appflow. I am successfully able to build my Andorid app, but my iOS app keeps failing with the below error:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'com.firebase.core', reason: '`FirebaseApp.configure()` could not find a valid GoogleService-Info.plist in your project. Please download one from https://console.firebase.google.com/.'

I have included this file in my app as directed by the Using Push Notifications with Firebase in an Ionic + Angular App tutorial.

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Ionic support told me to try adding the below to my package.json, but that also did not make any difference.

 "capacitor:sync:after": "cp ./ios/app/app/GoogleService-Info.plist ../GoogleService-Info.plist && echo 'Moved GoogleService-Info.plist'"

The build is successful, but when I try to run it on an iOS simulator, the app crashes with the above error. Please note that our team does not have a mac and is solely relying on Appflow to build our iOS app.

Here are my build logs:

I would greatly appreciate any help. This is the last issue preventing us from deploying our app. Therefore, any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank You

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On iOS copying files to the project folder doesn’t actually add those files to the project, you have to add them to the Xcode project.
I think you can use trapeze’s project API to add files with addFile method.
Or there are other npm libraries for editing Xcode project files too.

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is this resolved issue ? @khalsaschoolbc

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No, capacitor: sync did not work.

The issue is that the GoogleService-Info.plist file needs to be added in the project using XCode. It cannot be copied into the project through the standard file explorer.

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ok , in my case using xcode its working when i drag file in app/app folder. but In Ionic appflow build is getting faild.

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thanks @ khalsaschoolbc , for your quick response. its working in IONIC Appflow also without any capacitor:sync:after…

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unfortunately manual Xcode/Android Studio use is the only official way due to limitations of automated/programatic editing of iOS/Android projects. The consequence is serious antipattern of committing full mobile apps to the repo.

Use of trapeze project-api seems the right way to proceed (currently I use node-xcode package in a similar way) to add/update the GoogleService-Info.plist