Firebase multilingual Password Reset Email

Question

Hello all !

There is a service provided with Firebase (and all its awesomeness) that gives the possibility for an authenticated user to reset his password. But this service is taking only one text into account - the one defined on the dashboard.

Is it possible to get this in many languages ? I'm going to need this functionnality !

@Firebase Friends, since I think you will see this question - do you plan to add this in the future ? Or else give the possibility to pass a text as an argument to the function ?

Thanks ahead !

Answer 1

If you are using the standard Firebase email service you can currently have multilingual emails only if you use the standard template provided by Firebase. If you have a customised template you can reset it in the console. To send locale specific mails you should manually call the function to use the device language or set it with a string. These scenarios are provided as examples below:

Web SDK:

firebase.auth().useDeviceLanguage(); // set with function
firebase.auth().languageCode = 'fr'; // set with string

Android SDK:

auth.useAppLanguage(); // set with function
auth.setLanguageCode("fr"); // set with string

Swift SDK:

Auth.auth().useAppLanguage(); // set with function
Auth.auth().languageCode = "fr"; // set with string

The Google Groups mailing list has a nice discussion of these issues.

Another solution is to use custom email action handlers. The setup is more difficult but it is well documented in the Firebase documentation.