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Service accounts are useful for setting up App Distribution in a CI environment.
Authenticating with a service account
allows you to use client libraries (e.g., the Firebase CLI or fastlane) to
distribute your builds. When you use a service account to authenticate,
Firebase uses Application Default Credentials (ADC)
to locate your app's credentials, which you can provide by setting the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.
Create a private json key and move the key to a location accessible to your
build environment.
Be sure to keep this file somewhere safe, as it grants administrator
access to App Distribution in your Firebase project.
Skip this step if you created your app after September 20,
2019: In the Google APIs console, enable the
Firebase App Distribution API.
When prompted, select the project with the same name as your Firebase
project.
Set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path
of your private key JSON file: