Magnus Hyttsten Developer Advocate We're excited to announce the full speaker list and agenda for the first ever Firebase Dev Summit! Find the latest schedule on our newly launched site herefeaturing sessions such as How to Develop Rock Solid Apps with Firebase, a Firebase Analytics...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Monday, 24 October 2016
Start your week off with some new Firebase libraries!
Todd Kerpelman Developer Advocate Hey there, Firebase Developers! We wanted to let you know that we've made some new updates to the Firebase libraries for iOS, Android, as well as the Javascript SDK. You can read the full release notes here, but let's give you a quick summary of...
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Announcing Automated Daily Backups for the Firebase Database
Matthew Tse Site Reliability Engineer Private Backups is a good solution for backing up, scripting, and gathering analytics by regularly exporting your entire Database. Previously, setup involved a bit of back and forth between the user and Firebase Support. We are now offering...
Monday, 17 October 2016
Announcing Firebase Cloud Messaging for Web
Pinar Ozlen Software Engineer Today we're announcing web support for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) with the release of a JavaScript library. This extends our current browser support, enables a dramatically simpler implementation process, and brings powerful features such as Topics...
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Authenticate your Firebase users with Instagram
Nicolas Garnier Developer Programs Engineer Firebase Authentication supports four federated Identity Providers out-of-the-box, making it super easy to authenticate with Google, Facebook, Twitter and GitHub. For example, in a web app all you need to sign in your Firebase users...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Angular 2.1.0 Now Available
Angular version 2.1.0 - incremental-metamorphosis - is now available. This is a minor release following our announced adoption of Semantic Versioning, meaning that it contains no breaking changes and that it should be a drop-in replacement for 2.0.x. We encourage everyone to stay up to date with the latest version of Angular.What's new?The Router now supports preloading of lazy loaded modules, which...
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Better User Targeting with Firebase Remote Config
Todd Kerpelman Developer Advocate One of my favorite features of Firebase Remote Config is its ability to deliver different content to different groups of users. For instance, you can change the look and feel of your storefront for people who have spent a lot of money in your app....
Friday, 7 October 2016
Versioning and Releasing Angular
In order for the ecosystem around Angular to thrive, developers need stability from the Angular framework so that reusable components and libraries, tutorials, tools and learned practices don’t go obsolete unexpectedly.However, we also all want Angular to keep evolving. To achieve both goals, we’re...
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Group Security in the Firebase Database
Todd Kerpelman Developer Advocate Let’s say you've got a chat app where you want to enable a private conversation among a select group of people. Or you have a photo sharing app where you want a group of friends to contribute to an album together. How could you limit this kind...
6 reasons to attend the Firebase Dev Summit!
Karin Levi Firebase Marketing Manager We recently announced that the first Firebase Dev Summit will be held in Berlin on Nov 7th. A few spots for app developers are still available and we encourage you to register today! In our experience there are a number of things required...
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Become a Firebase Taskmaster! (Part 4: Multi-Taskmastering)
Doug Stevenson Developer Advocate This is the last post in this blog series about the Play Services Task API and its use in Firebase. If you missed the firstthreeparts, consider jumping back to those before continuing here. When you're all caught up, let's finish up this series!...