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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

By : Kumar S

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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

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By: Kumar S

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Overview of this book

Firebase offers a wide spectrum of tools and services to help you develop high-quality apps in a short period of time. It also allows you to build web and mobile apps quickly without managing the infrastructure.Mastering Firebase for Android Development takes you through the complete toolchain of Firebase,including the latest tools announced in Google IO 2018 such as Firebase ML-Kit, FireStore, and Firebase Predictions. The book begins by teaching you to configure your development environment with Firebase and set up a different structure for a Firebase real-time database. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll establish the authentication feature in Android and explore email and phone authentication for managing the on-boarding of users. You’ll be taken through topics on Firebase crash reporting, Firebase functions, Firebase Cloud, Firebase Hosting, and Cloud Messaging for push notifications and explore other key areas in depth. In the concluding chapters, you will learn to use Firebase Test Lab to test your application before using Firebase Performance Monitoring to trace performance setbacks. By the end of the book, you will be well equipped with the Firebase ecosystem, which will help you find solutions to your common application development challenges.

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Keep It Real – Firebase Realtime Database

Firebase Realtime Database

Setting up a development environment

Reading and writing to Realtime Database

Realtime Database rules

Creating an Android application using Realtime Database

Summary

Safe and Sound – Firebase Authentication

Firebase Authentication

Setting up Firebase Authentication

FirebaseUI Email Authentication

Firebase SDK Email Authentication

FirebaseUI social networking site authentication

Firebase SDK social networking site authentication

Summary

Safe and Sound – Firebase Crashlytics

Firebase Crash Reporting and Crashlytics

Firebase Crash Reporting setup

Firebase Crashlytics

Summary

Genie in the Cloud – Firebase Cloud Functions

Firebase Cloud Functions

Trigger functions

Writing Firebase functions

Summary

Arsenal for Your Files – Firebase Cloud Storage

Firebase a Cloud Storage

Creating storage reference

Uploading and downloading files

File metadata

Storage and functions

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Not Just a Keeper, Firebase Hosting

Firebase Hosting

Deploying a website

Connecting to custom domain

Connecting Firebase cloud functions

Customizing hosting behavior

Reserved URLs

Summary

Inspection and Evaluation – Firebase Test Lab

Firebase Test Lab

Firebase Test Lab results

Firebase Test Lab Game Loop testing

Prelaunch reports

Summary

A Smart Watchdog – Firebase Performance Monitoring

Firebase Performance Monitoring

Summary

Application Usage Measuring and Notification, Firebase Analytics, and Cloud Messaging

Firebase Analytics

Cloud Messaging

Summary

Changing Your App – Firebase Remote Config and Dynamic Links

Firebase Remote Config

Firebase Dynamic Links

Summary

Bringing Everyone on the Same Page, Firebase Invites, and Firebase App Indexing

Firebase Invites

Firebase App Indexing

Summary

Making a Monetary Impact and Firebase AdMob and AdWords

Firebase AdWords

AdMob

Summary

Flexible NoSQL and Cloud Firestore

Cloud Firestore

Summary

Analytics Data, Clairvoyant, Firebase Predictions

Firebase Predictions

Summary

Training Your Code and ML Kit

Firebase ML Kit

Vision

Custom models

Summary

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