I tried to change the native Firebase SDK version for my Android app because I needed an important bug fix. The documentation says I should add

project.ext {
  set('FlutterFire', [
    FirebaseSDKVersion: 'xxx'
  ])
}

to the /android/app/build.gradle file. This didn't work and the old version was still in use. I tried adding these lines to /android/build.gradle and it worked

Google suggests enabling gzip compression before transferring files over the network:

In order to receive a gzip-encoded response you must do two things: Set an Accept-Encoding header, and modify your user agent to contain the string gzip. Here is an example of properly formed HTTP headers for enabling gzip compression:

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