Email/Password Auth

Introduction

Email/Password is the base authentication used by Remote Storage. It runs automatically during initialization — no user interaction or login UI is needed. Remote Storage generates device-scoped credentials (email and password) from the device's unique identifiers and uses them to authenticate with Firebase.

Prerequisites

• Firestore is configured as explained in Firestore Storage

Setup Email/Password Authentication

1. Navigate to your Firebase project in the Firebase Console.

2. Click on Authentication → Sign-in method.

3. Click Add new provider → select Email/Password.

4. Toggle Enable to on.

   
5. Click Save.

How It Works

• On first launch, the system creates a Firebase user using a device-derived email and password.

• On subsequent launches, it reuses the cached Firebase user (or re-authenticates if the cache is invalid).

• This gives each device a unique Firebase UID, which is used to scope Firestore documents.