Firebase 8.14.0

[dmariogatto]

Includes

Firebase

• All projects updated 8.14.0

Google

• AdMob updated to 9.2.0 (added bindings for missing mediation APIs)
• Google Maps updated to 6.1.1

Google MLKit

• Barcode scanning updated to 1.7.0

Included bug fixes

• Xamarin.iOS.Google.Places - Unrecognised selector sent to instance #530
• Incorrect string for analytics parameter ScreenName #534
• Missing "GADCustomNativeAdLoaderDelegate" Interface in Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds #536
• GoogleAppMeasurementWithoutAdIdSupport.xcframework has an incorrect or unknown format #537

Notes

1. Need to determine how to deal with the name conflict for Xamarin.Google.iOS.UserMessagingPlatform Mobile Ads SDK (iOS) versioning error - Xamarin.Firebase.iOS.Admob plugin #520
2. Need to release updated MLKit packages (since the current ones will result in linking error when using the latest Firebase packages Linker command failed with exit code 1 on latest packages #535

Moving forward - Community Confidence

There have been a few errors introduced by the latest Firebase packages (typos, missing/incorrect bindings, etc), for which I apologise. Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge/time to test every API call. I'm happy to address issues as they're reported, but it's not going to be very effective if this project doesn't get timely releases.

It would be reassuring to get some kind of roadmap for this project from Microsoft, and possibly a pre-release channel so people can test out major binding changes.

[andrewrjohn]

@dalexsoto @mattleibow could you offer any information as to when this could get merged and released (assuming @dmariogatto can fix the build)? This is something we are reliant upon.

[dmariogatto]

@SotoiGhost I've created a new branch, firebase-8120-net6, which merges the net6 changes with this PR. Is this work useful to you? Or would you prefer to do the Firebase updates yourself & I'll close this PR?

[Picao84]

Will this be merged any time soon?