react-native-firebase/codorials/authentication-with-firebase/google-login.md

Google Login

Much like Facebook loginin, Firebase provides the ability to accept and sign in with a Google credential.

Installing react-native-google-signin

To sign in with Google, we recommend using react-native-google-signin. This provides a native way of obtaining the users Google accounts and their required accessToken.

npm install react-native-google-signin --save
react-native link react-native-google-signin

Creating a credential

To generate a new credential for the user, simply call the asynchronous signIn method react-native-google-signin provides and create a new credential from the firebase.auth.GoogleAuthProvider:

import { GoogleSignin } from 'react-native-google-signin';

// Calling this function will open Google for login.
export const googleLogin = async () => {
  try {
    // Add any configuration settings here:
    await GoogleSignin.configure();

    const data = await GoogleSignin.signIn();

    // create a new firebase credential with the token
    const credential = firebase.auth.GoogleAuthProvider.credential(data.idToken, data.accessToken)

    // login with credential
    const currentUser = await firebase.auth().signInAndRetrieveDataWithCredential(credential);

  } catch (e) {
    console.error(e);
  }
}

The flow here is exactly the same as the rest of our app; logging in with the newly created credential will trigger our onAuthStateChanged lister to fire with the new user, logging us into the application.