Authenticate and use Firebase in non-interactive environments

I work with Android mobile application, where source code is maintained in Azure. I want to automate the build process and upload the .apk file in Firebase App Distribution, as per the requirment.

I used Azure Pipeline to automate the build process. Am using .yml file to automate the process. Were able to generate the .apk file. I need to upload this to Firebase.

Followed few blogs and ends up with below code that needs to be written in my .yml file

- script: |
    cd functions
    npm init --yes
    npm install -g firebase-tools
    npm install
    firebase login --interactive
    firebase appdistribution:distribute --app APP_ID --release-notes "My first distribution" --testers "xyzh@gmail.com" $(build.artifactStagingDirectory)$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/android-devops.apk
  displayName: 'npm install and deploy'

With this, couldn't login into firebase, since there will be no interaction on run. It is completely automated by Azure on running the job. If I used these commands in command prompt, it open firebase login page and on login it got authentication. After that appdistribution:distribute command uploads the application to Firebase successfully. But I need to automate this process in Azure Devops Pipeline, where there will be no interactions.

Please try to generate an authentication token first, and then use either of the following two options:

• Store the token as the environment variable FIREBASE_TOKEN. Your system will automatically use the token.
• Run all firebase commands with the --token flag in your CI system.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cli/#command_reference