Todd Kerpelman Developer Advocate This is probably one of the most common questions we get around Firebase Analytics, and we thought it was worth taking some time to delve into this topic a little deeper. So buckle in, kids! We've got some learning ahead of us... To understand latency...
Monday, 28 November 2016
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
What happens to database listeners when security rules reject an update?
Doug Stevenson Developer Advocate If your app is using Firebase Realtime Database, you've probably gotten a lot of mileage out of its ability to notify your app quickly as changes are made to the database. Your listeners are triggering and receiving new data, users are delighted,...
Monday, 21 November 2016
Firebase App Indexing for Personal Content
Fabian Schlup Software Engineer In September, we launched a new way to search for content in apps on Android phones. With this update, users were able to find personal content like messages, notes, music and more across apps like OpenTable, Ticketmaster, Evernote, Glide, Asana,...
Google Play services and Firebase for Android will support API level 14 at minimum
Doug Stevenson Developer Advocate Originally posted on Android Developer Blog Version 10.0.0 of the Google Play services client libraries, as well as the Firebase client libraries for Android, will be the last version of these libraries that support Android API level 9 (Android...
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Start using Firebase Test Lab for Android at no charge
Doug Stevenson Developer Advocate Developer feedback continues to be a critical medium for us to ensure Firebase meets the needs of the community. Since we launched the expansion of Firebase at Google I/O in May, we received a clear message that many of you would like to try Firebase...
Monday, 14 November 2016
Announcing Firebase for Unity
Todd Kerpelman Developer Advocate Did you know that Firebase contains a whole bunch of features that makes it easier for you as a developer to build awesome apps? Yeah, okay. That's probably not news. But you might have noticed that, for a while, we've been talking about "apps"...
Angular 2.2.0 Now Available
Angular version 2.2.0 - 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 is be a drop-in replacement for 2.1.x. What's new?You can now AOT compile your Angular 2 Components and Modules when using @angular/upgrade. Check out the upgrade guide on our docs site.We've added features to the router...
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Authenticate your Firebase users with LINE Login
Khanh LeViet Developer Advocate Nowadays, many users prefer using federated login, such as Google Sign-In, Facebook, Twitter and others, over having to create a new account for every service they use. Each user has their own favorite federated login provider, and it would take a...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Get up and running on Firebase this weekend with Firebase in a Weekend
Shanea King-Roberson Google Developer Training Earlier this year, we introduced the expansion of Firebase: a unified app platform that provides developers a variety of tools and a scalable infrastructure to build high quality apps and grow successful businesses across Android, iOS...
Bringing Firebase To Your Server
Jacob Wenger Software Engineer With Firebase, we've been working towards a world where developers don't have to deal with managing servers and can instead build web and mobile apps with only client-side code. However, there are times when you really do need to spin up your own server....
Monday, 7 November 2016
Live from the Firebase Dev Summit in Berlin: Firebase, six months after I/O
Francis Ma Firebase Product Manager Our goal with Firebase is to help developers build better apps and grow them into successful businesses. Six months ago at Google I/O, we took our well-loved backend-as-a-service (BaaS) and expanded it to 15 features to make it Google’s unified...
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Pirate Metrics: Retain More Users With Firebase
Parul Soi Developer Relations Program Manager In the past three posts, I've introduced readers to Pirate Metrics, and shown how you can boost your acquisition strategy and activation numbers with Firebase products.In this post, we're going to talk about one of the biggest problems...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Easy Angular Authentication with JSON Web Tokens
Easy Angular Authentication with JSON Web TokensStateless authentication is a great fit for Angular apps. In this post, guest-blogger Ryan Chenkie from Auth0 talks about implementing it using JSON Web Tokens. -- Victor SavkinTL;DR: Single page apps--like the ones we build with Angular--present...