firebase_app_distribution can not distribute to testers groups on CirclceCI

Question

On firebase console a testers group exists with name and alias, e.g. test-group. I'm distribution with:

firebase_app_distribution(
    app: ****,
    service_credentials_file: ***,
    groups: 'test-group',
    firebase_cli_token: ****
)

When run fastlane to distribute an app from localhost there is no problem with app distribution, but when run build on CircleCI it fails.

[!] Could not enable access for testers. Check that the groups exist and the tester emails are formatted correctly Emails:
Groups: ["test-group"]

Searching the error on Google didn't help. Also added firebase_cli_token, but no success. Also found a suggestion to add firebase tools to install CLI, the result is the same

  -
      run:
           name: "Install Firebase CLI"
           command: |
              curl -sL firebase.tools | bash

Does anybody face a similar issue?

Answer 1

I had the same issue and found it here. It was a bug but it's fixed!

Update the firebase plugin to 0.2.3:

fastlane update_plugins

or

change the version in your Gemfile.lock and do

fastlane add_plugin firebase_app_distribution