Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain for about eight years. He is a Google-certified engineer, a speaker at global scale conferences, and he also runs a YouTube channel called AndroidABCD for Android developers. He is an early Firebase adopter before Google acquires Firebase. He is a computer science and engineering graduate who is passionate about innovation in technology. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his e-karma. He has also written a book on Wear OS programming using a project-based approach, titled Android Wear Projects.
I would like to express my deepest appreciation and special gratitude to all those from the Packt Editorial team who helped me complete this book, especially Francis Savio Carneiro, Sachin Sunilkumar, and Roshan Ravi Kumar. I'd also like to thank T. Subhash Chandra and Mohan B.A. for all the motivation. Finally, my deepest thanks to my mother Lalitha Srinivas, and my friends and family who helped manifest the book.
Houssem Yahiaoui is full stack JavaScript developer and consultant based in Algeria. He has worked for many local and international agencies, and now has an interest in new technologies and machine learning with JavaScript. He's the author of Firebase Cookbook and is also a meetup and community advocate, conference speaker, and bootcamp mentor. In his free time, Houssem is a blockchain advocate, backpacker, and traveler, with a keen eye for local food experiments.
I would like to thank my family, mostly my mother for her infinite support in every possible way. Without you, I would never be where I am now.
Harmeet Singh is a senior associate working for Synechron with varied experience in UI. He hails from the holy city of Amritsar, India. His expertise includes HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, MongoDB, and Node.js. His interests include music, sports, and adventure. Harmeet has given various presentations and conducted many workshops on UI development. On the academic front, Harmeet is a graduate in IT and is a GNIIT diploma holder from NIIT, specializing in software engineering. He can be reached on Skype and LinkedIn at harmeetsingh090.
I would like to thank my best friend, Srishti Gajbhiye, for her tremendous support and motivation to make this work possible.
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