Get started with Remote Config rollouts


With Remote Config rollouts, you can safely and gradually release new features and updates to your app. With rollouts, you can control the release of new app features by targeting specific user groups. Like A/B testing, in a rollout, the enabled group is measured against an equal sized control group for meaningful comparisons in the results.

Step 1: Instrument your App with Remote Config, Crashlytics, and Google Analytics

Before you can start using Remote Config rollouts to gradually launch new features to your users, your app should be instrumented with Firebase Remote Config, Crashlytics, and Google Analytics.

  1. Follow the instructions in Get started with Remote Config to add Remote Config and Analytics to your app and create a Remote Config template. You'll need to ensure that you're using Firebase BoM v32.6.0+ (Remote Config SDK v21.6.0+).
  2. Follow the instructions in Get started with Crashlytics to add Crashlytics to your app. Be sure to implement Firebase iOS SDK v10.24.0+.

For optimal performance, we recommend implementing real-time Remote Config in your apps to ensure that rollout values are fetched as soon as they're published.

Step 2: Configure a rollout in the Firebase console

After your app is instrumented with Remote Config, Crashlytics, and Analytics, you can use the Firebase console to create a rollout.

  1. In the Firebase console, navigate to Remote Config, then open Rollouts.
  2. Click Create rollout.
  3. In the Parameter field, select an existing parameter or create a new parameter to update with your rollout, then click Next.

  4. Create or select a Target condition. This condition defines which devices will be added to the rollout-enabled and control groups. See Understand rollout group membership for more information about how rollout-enabled and control groups are assigned to users.

  5. Click Next, and in the Enabled value field, add the value you want to release to your users.

  6. In the Random percentage field, enter the total percentage of devices that should receive the enabled value. Because Firebase assigns an equal-sized control group to ensure an accurate comparison of results when measuring the performance of your enabled feature, this value must be 50% or less, unless you roll out to 100%. Note that this value is bound by your conditions: for example, if you configured a condition that only rolled out to version 2.0 of your app, and 30% of your user base have adopted v2.0, setting this value to 50% would mean that 15% of your total user base would get the rollout value.

  7. Click Next and provide a Name and, optionally, a Description, then click Save.

  8. To start the rollout, click Publish changes, review the changed parameters, then click Publish changes again.

Your rollout should begin and you should be able to view results almost immediately.

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