Building a NativeScript + Angular 2 Mobile App using Firebase

Jen Looper Developer Advocate at ProgressSW Guest blogger Jen Looper The powerful combination of NativeScript, Firebase, and Angular 2 can kickstart your app building into high gear, especially during the holidays when you find yourself confronted with the need to speed up your app development...

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Monitoring Santa Tracker with Firebase

Sam Stern Developer Programs Engineer The Santa Tracker app for Android is a Google holiday tradition. Every year, millions of people around the world use the app to play games with elves and reindeer and, of course, track Santa, as he flies around the world on December 24th. While...

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Install XAMPP 7.0 on Ubuntu and Mac OSx using Redis and Memcached Extensions

Now, it’s time to update your PHP web server. We had few vulnerabilities with previous versions like openSSL and others. PHP 7 is very fast, advanced and has improved execution time. XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment, it saves time and effort by providing easy way to install Apache-MySQL-PHP...

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Angular Material Beta Release, New Flex-Layout library

We're sneaking in a little holiday gift at the end of the year: two new beta releases for developers to try out with the latest version of Angular.material components with a custom theme and RTL textIn March, we gave you a first preview of the new Angular Material components. Today's beta release of...

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How does Firebase initialize on Android?

Doug Stevenson Developer Advocate If you've been working with Firebase on Android, you may have noticed that you don't normally have to write any lines of code to initialize a feature. You just grab the singleton object for that feature, and start using it right away. And, in the...

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Angular 2.4.0 Now Available

Angular version 2.4.0 - stability-interjection - 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 a drop-in replacement for 2.x.x. What's new?This release updates our dependencies to the recently announced RxJS 5 stableFor the complete list of features and bugfixes please see the changel...

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Working with multiple Firebase projects in an Android app

Ian Barber Developer Programs Engineer Firebase provides a bunch of features to use together in your app, provided by a project that you create at the Firebase console. Normally, it's sufficient to have all your app's resources provided by a single project, but there are times when you...

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Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase

Parul Soi Developer Relations Program Manager Over the course of this series, I've introduced the concept of Pirate Metrics, followed by individual posts discussing how to track (and improve) acquisition, activationand retentionwith Firebase and its' suite of products.Every product...

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Ok... let me explain: it's going to be Angular 4.0, or just Angular

This is a guest blog post by Juri Strumpflohner. Juri is a full-stack developer, architect and tech lead with a passion for frontend development, especially Angular. Juri writes technical articles on his personal blog and is the author of some online video courses. He also likes to engage and help the...

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COMODO SSL Certificate Installation with A+ Rating

SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is must for any e-commerce or data based applications. Because, nowadays to run any social applications like Google or Facebook, SSL/HTTPS URL is must to get geo location or any map related stuff. Long time back, I have already discussed with the installation of...

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Angular 1.6.0 released

AngularJS 1.6.0 - rainbow-tsunami Release AnnouncementContinuing our development and support of Angular 1, we are announcing the next significant release, 1.6.0, which has been in development since May this year.In this release we have added a number of useful features that should improve the developer experience and we have tightened up the security of Angular 1 even further. We have also removed...

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