I’ve made several apps with the firebase studio prototype. Is there a step by step guide or video anywhere, that shows how to properly publish and distribute to users either staying as a web app or convert to mobile android or apple?
I’ve looked high and low, it is not as straight forward as just publishing the app and paying for hosting. I tried with one of my apps and now it’s just broke and eventually just unpublished it.
Any help would be appreciated, I don’t even care to make any money from the apps. Just want to be able to distribute it so people can try.
Regards,
Arnel
Hey Arnel, welcome!
We have documentation on publishing an app, but it sounds like you were on the right path with deploying and setting up hosting. When you say your app broke, what happened?
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i may have published it before, i should have. I tried to make a couple changes and it wouldn’t take the changes. Gemini would show what it was going to do but then hang. i restored it back to a previous snapshot, but it still wouldn’t take anymore changes. which is why i googled how to unpublish app, simple way was to switch from blaze to free.
That document link you shared is what i followed. It published fine, then I couldn’t figure out how to give people access to it. does all the apps need to authenticate?
Ooh ok, I’ve seen a few people here in the forums report similar issues (unrelated to publishing), where the prototyper will stop taking new commands or revert back to the blueprint, so that may have been what you ran into and it just unfortunately coincided with when you tried to publish the app. The team is looking into some of those prototyper errors, but if you do publish a new app, you can share it by just providing the URL. When you click the Publish button (after publishing), you’ll see a URL at the top, which is what you can share with people to access it.
If you want to share it before publishing, there’s also a preview option you can share with others
thanks yes I did have a url that generated after publishing, but when giving it out previously the people i gave link to said they did not have permission.
Ahhh that is weird! If you hadn’t set up authentication and it initially published successfully, that link should have worked (that’s the intention at least), but obviously you ran into some kind of error. If it happens again, feel free to share the link here and we can take a look.