From 11ba7fadb693b3672ce033639c688d9b3b7328b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Jansen <richard@pedroja.tech>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:38:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added env file; updated README

---
 .env      | 2 ++
 README.md | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .env

diff --git a/.env b/.env
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a92194e41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# follow the instructions in the [Firebase Documentation](https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/auth-server#provide-credentials-manually) to create a service account. after you create a service account, and download the json file. then change the value of `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` to the path of the json file you downloaded.
+GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/your/firebase/file.json"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dded166c3..5918e7c65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@
 [travis]: https://travis-ci.org/panicbit/fcm-rust
 [coveralls]: https://coveralls.io/github/panicbit/fcm-rust
 
-## Examples
+## v1 API
 
 This fork is a rewrite to use Google's HTTP v1 API.
 
+# Credentials
+
+This library expects the Google credentials JSON location to be 
+defined as `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` in the `.env` file.
+
 ## Examples
 
 Check out the examples directory for a simple sender.