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Hi @DavidZobrist

Unfortunately the emulator suite is currently not supported on Unity, though it is on our radar. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hello, @a-maurice, have same needs, is there any news on emulator support?

1 - Any plans or news here? @a-maurice @chkuang-g

👍 @a-maurice @chkuang-g It would be very useful.

@a-maurice can you please note on the docs that Unity is not supported? It is not clear: https://firebase.google.com/docs/emulator-suite

@a-maurice is there any progress on this?
I noticed that the unity functions api has a method to configure the emulator, but none of the other services appear to have the same setting?
All my attempts to manually set the settings for auth and database have failed.

I am not able to reproduce this bug; that is, using the Firestore emulator from Unity Editor is working for me.

This bug was originally logged against a very old version of the SDK (6.15.0). Please try with the latest version (8.3.0).

Also, note that the API to edit the settings has changed. Here is the new way to setup the emulator:

FirebaseFirestore firestore = FirebaseFirestore.DefaultInstance;
firestore.Settings.Host = "localhost:8080";
firestore.Settings.SslEnabled = false;

@dconeybe I apologise, my previous message may have been a bit unclear. My enquiry was more about the Auth, Functions and the Realtime Database emulators - I wasn't actually using Firestore at the time.

I have noticed that none of the unity tutorials appear to have set up instructions for any of these. All of the node based tutorials seemed to make use of a UseEmulator method which does not appear to be in most of the unity apis. (I did find that the FirestoreFunctions API has a method for setting it up with the emulator, and that is working)

The steps I have found online for the Database is to change the url in the google-services file, but that doesn't appear to be working for me. Tracing out the database url in the settings always shows the default one.

I have found nothing on how to get it working with the Auth emulator at all - which I think I need to be able to have the auth properties appear in the functions emulator?

Aplogies if this was not the best place to ask these questions. I was repeatedly brought to this page for searches about how to get the emulators working in unity, and it seemed related, so I thought it was the best place to ask. If you could point me in the right direction regarding these issues, I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, for what it is worth, I was able to get Firestore working with the emulator using your above steps.

@sevdanski I'm glad to hear that you got the Firestore emulator working with your Unity app. We have plans to add a convenience useEmulator() method for Firestore but no specific timelines for getting that added (Googlers see b/202462877). In the meantime, to use the Firestore emulator simply use the steps from #719 (comment).

Since the issue with the Firestore emulator is resolved, I'm going to remove the Firestore label from this ticket. And since my personal expertise is in Firestore (not Firebase in general) I'm going to leave this discussion and let the other team members response to the questions about the other emulators.

Hi @sevdanski,

As of today we don't have a Unity guide on how to use Firebase Emulators across all of our products, so that's probably why your searches keep landing you here.  

Additionally, we currently don't officially support the use of emulators via the Unity SDK, though its on our roadmap. Our initial investigation made us aware of some runtime issues between Unity and varoius product emulators so the question of support isn't simply one of documentation but of isolating, testing and fixing issues on a product per product basis, and then adding tests to our CI workflows.

When we do have official support you should expect proper documentation and a smoother experience than what you're encountering today (sorry for the inconvenience). Additionally you should see an official update to this particular ticket -- it won't be a stealth release for sure!

@DellaBitta @dconeybe Thanks to you both for the info. I'll keep an eye out for the updates!

#719 (comment) worked for me. Note that for those using separate assembly references for their tests and runtime code, FirebaseFirestore.DefaultInstance will exist twice: once in each process. Make sure you handle that. In my case, I have the code above run in two places: once in my testing code, and once in my game code.

Any news on this?

though its on our roadmap.

Any chance we can get a peek at this roadmap?
As developers we are making critical product decisions and knowing whether emulator support is around the corner or just a twinkle in googles eye would be incredibly helpful.

Yeah it seems Unity firebase SDk is still not updated to fully support auth emulator, functions ( and maybe others?)

We need a firebase update to support emulator throug Unity ASAP! is a must for testing

We need it !!!

it's been already 3 years since the first message was written, and still nothing..

Holy cowza, how many people are blocked like we are, just because of a lack of resources at Firebase on Unity? I would love some more transparency about what's working vs not working. I hate wasting time hunting down what major pieces are not working. Emulator suite is pretty darn important to get running inside a unit testing workflow. Us Unity developers need it.

PLEASE ADD IT

Is there any Update?

Any updates about this?
Has anyone managed to find a non-standard way to address this issue, or discovered an alternative solution?