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Firebase Cookbook

By : Houssem Yahiaoui
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Firebase Cookbook

By: Houssem Yahiaoui

Overview of this book

Do you feel tired just thinking or even hearing about backend technologies, authentication or the tedious task of deployment? Firebase is here to change the way you develop and make your app a first-class citizen of the cloud. This books takes a solution based approach by providing you recipes that would help you understand the features of Firebase and implement them in your existing web or mobile applications. We start-off by creating our first Firebase application and integrating its services into different platforms and environments for mobile as well as web applications. Then we deep dive into Real-time Database and Firebase Storage that allows your users to access data across various devices with realtive ease. With each chapter you will gradually create the building blocks of your application from securing your data with Firebase Rules to authenticating your users with O-Auth. Moving along we would explore modern application development techniques such as creating serverless applications with Firebase Cloud Functions or turning your traditional applications into progressive apps with Service workers. Finally you will learn how to create cross-platform mobile apps, integrate Firebase in native platforms, and learn how to monetize your mobile applications using Admob for Android and iOS.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing topic subscription in Android/ iOS

Topic subscription is self-explanatory. Sometimes within a news app, you won't want to have a notification for all the news. Maybe you want to get the latest and most important news, maybe you want to know today's top games, or you might just want to know your favorite team major news on a daily basis; such an experience is present, available, and doable using the Firebase topic subscription API.

Now, let's see how we can provide such an experience to our users, knowing that the UI can differ from one application to another. Maybe you've got a dashboard for an important news, or sports, or weather, but you might go deeper, providing custom titles or topics.

Firebase topic subscription is smart enough to create a new topic if the topic you want to subscribe to is not registered to a custom topic that Firebase...