Enabling Firestore Persistence for React Native

Question

I am using React Native Firebase and I am trying to enable persistence for my app.

On my Android onCreate:

public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().setPersistenceEnabled(true);
    SoLoader.init(this, /* native exopackage */ false);
  }

For some reason when I am online and I kill my app and reopen, the images seems to reload and it takes long to appear..If I turn the net off they will come up instantly showing that the offline data actually works.

How do I enable the persistence for the firestore so it will load the unchanged data from the cache instantly?

I saw the documentation which shows that I would need to add this code for the android:

FirebaseFirestoreSettings settings = new FirebaseFirestoreSettings.Builder()
        .setPersistenceEnabled(true)
        .build();
db.setFirestoreSettings(settings);

but I have no idea how to integrate with the React Native Firebase as I am importing the RNFirebaseFirestorePackage

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

For react-native+firebase, one of my suggestion would be react-native-firebase which is bridging between JS and native framework.

Doing quick search, seems like you cannot directly - enable persistance.

You need to do it through Settings.