login

Verifies your API key and saves credentials to ~/.appflight/credentials.json.

appflight login

Steps

1. Generate a key in the AppFlight mobile app → Settings → API Keys
2. Run appflight login
3. Paste the key when prompted (input is hidden)

The CLI verifies the key against AppFlight before saving. If verification fails, nothing is written.

Credentials file

Saved to ~/.appflight/credentials.json with 600 permissions (owner read/write only).

{
  "apiKey": "appflight_xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "uid": "firebase-uid",
  "email": "you@example.com"
}

Warning: Never commit ~/.appflight/credentials.json. For CI/CD, use the APPFLIGHT_API_KEY environment variable instead — no login step required.

CI / CD

On build servers, skip login and set the environment variable:

export APPFLIGHT_API_KEY=appflight_xxxxxxxxxxxx
appflight upload --flavor stage