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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

By : Ashok Kumar S
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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

By: Ashok Kumar S

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.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
9
Application Usage Measuring and Notification, Firebase Analytics, and Cloud Messaging
11
Bringing Everyone on the Same Page, Firebase Invites, and Firebase App Indexing
12
Making a Monetary Impact and Firebase AdMob and AdWords
13
Flexible NoSQL and Cloud Firestore
14
Analytics Data, Clairvoyant, Firebase Predictions
Index

Connecting to custom domain


The main question we should ask ourselves after learning about Hosting a static web application is how do we associate that to our domain? So, what commands should we use in the Firebase CLI? Are commands required? What is the procedure? The answers are very simple and the process of connecting a custom domain is straightforward; it doesn't require any commands or code snippets. We need to visit https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/hosting/main  and if you have not hosted a static web app, you will need to click on the Get Started button, which allows developers to explore the additional features, including the Connect Domain button. 

Click on the Connect Domain button and now enter the domain URL in the input field and click Continue. The process will validate that your domain is not associated with any Firebase project prior to this, and also give you the option to have a redirect mechanism point to another domain. Firebase fetches the SSL provision...