Firestore: pending writes silently lost when issued around disableNetwork() / enableNetwork()

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Desde el 22/7/2026.

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api: firestore type: bug
[REQUIRED] Step 1: Describe your environment
  • Android Studio version: any (reproduced on emulator and physical device)
  • Firebase Component: Firestore
  • Component version: reproduced with firebase-bom:33.1.1 (firebase-firestore); originally observed June 2024, still relevant as of the FlutterFire triage in July 2026
[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe the problem
Steps to reproduce:

When a write (e.g. update() with FieldValue.increment()) is issued while the network is being toggled via disableNetwork() / enableNetwork(), the write can be silently dropped — it never reaches the backend and no error is surfaced. Starting from a field value of 0, calling increment(-1) followed by increment(+1) across a network toggle can leave the server value at -1 (or lower after repeated runs) instead of 0.

This was originally reported against FlutterFire in firebase/flutterfire#12952 with a Flutter reproduction (roughly 40–50% hit rate per attempt, near-certain when repeated). A FlutterFire maintainer then reproduced it in a pure native Android project using this SDK directly, with no Flutter involved: TarekkMA/firebase-android-reproduction @ ff-issue/12952. On that basis the FlutterFire issue was closed as an upstream native SDK bug (comment) — FlutterFire only forwards increment/disableNetwork/enableNetwork to this SDK. I'm filing this issue here to continue the investigation, as no upstream issue existed yet.

Trigger sequence (from the original report, translated to the Android SDK):

FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
DocumentReference doc = db.collection("test").document("doc"); // field "v" starts at 0

Map<String, Object> minusOne = new HashMap<>();
minusOne.put("v", FieldValue.increment(-1));
Map<String, Object> plusOne = new HashMap<>();
plusOne.put("v", FieldValue.increment(1));

doc.update(minusOne);      // not awaited, as in real offline-capable apps
db.disableNetwork();
doc.update(plusOne);
db.enableNetwork();

Repeat the sequence a few times (a 2–3 second pause between runs is enough; firing many sequences concurrently makes it near-deterministic) and watch the document via a snapshot listener or the console.

The disableNetwork()/enableNetwork() calls are only a deterministic stand-in for an unstable real-world connection — the original report reproduced the same loss on a physical device with a genuinely flaky network, it is just far more cumbersome to trigger that way.

Expected result

Both queued writes are eventually delivered once the network is re-enabled — offline mutations are documented as queued and synced when connectivity returns. The field ends at 0 after every -1/+1 pair, every time.

Actual result

Intermittently (~40–50% of attempts in the Flutter harness, also confirmed in the native Android repro linked above) one of the writes is lost: the field ends at -1, and repeated runs drift further negative. The lost write's task never fails — there is no error signal that the mutation was dropped, so the client and server silently diverge.

Relevant Code:

Note: the same behavior was also reproduced on iOS through FlutterFire, so the defect is likely shared across the native SDKs' offline mutation queue logic rather than being Android-specific.

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