How to Implement Firebase Remote Config with Swift 5

Control your iOS app’s behavior remotely

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Firebase Remote Config allows you to control your app’s state without adding any additional code and republishing your app on the App Store. For example, you could control a certain label’s text property using just the Firebase Console, and this is exactly what we will be doing in this tutorial. Let’s start:

1. Create a new blank Xcode project
2. Go to https://console.firebase.com
3. Add a new project
4. Set any name, accept the terms and press Create Project
5. Open your brand new Firebase project
6. Tap on iOS button
7. In iOS bundle ID: copy Bundle Identifier from your Xcode project
8. Press Register app
9. Download GoogleService-Info.plist file and paste it into your Xcode project’s root folder. Make sure that the name of the download file is exactly GoogleService-Info.plist
10. Open Terminal and navigate to your project’s root directory. For example, I have the project on the Desktop: cd desktop/testapp
11. Run pod init
12. Open the generated Podfile: open Podfile -a Xcode
13. Add the following…