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Firebase App Distribution helps developers test their apps before launch
Firebase App Distribution will help developers test their apps prior to their launch, and help developers collect user testing data.
When developers want to test their apps and make sure they work, it's important to test them on groups of people and to ensure that all of the feedback and testing data they get is of a high standard. Google’s Firebase is a pretty comprehensive set of development tools that can help do exactly that, but also so much more. Its goal is to make app development and maintenance easier, with features like detailed crash reporting, user analytics, authentication, and storage. That's why Google is now graduating Firebase App Distribution into stability at this year's Google I/O, pulling it out of the beta that it's been in since the end of 2019.
New Firebase extensions let you quickly add e-commerce features to your app
There are new Firebase extensions that will let you quickly add e-commerce features to your app, announced at this year's Firebase Summit.
Google's virtual Firebase Summit 2021 kicked off today, and we're getting some new features for Firebase. Google’s Firebase is a pretty comprehensive set of development tools. Its goal is to make app development and maintenance easier, with features like detailed crash reporting, user analytics, authentication, and storage. Google has been constantly working to improve Firebase, most recently announcing new extensions for Firebase at Google I/O 21. Now, there are even more extensions getting added. Developers are getting a wide range of extensions focused purely on e-commerce, including a Google Pay extension.
Firebase now offers beta level support for tvOS and macOS
Firebase now offers beta level support for tvOS and macOS, along with a ton of other improvements aimed at Apple users, too.
Google’s virtual Firebase Summit 2021 kicked off today, and we’re getting some new features for Firebase. Google’s Firebase is a pretty comprehensive set of development tools. Its goal is to make app development and maintenance easier, with features like detailed crash reporting, user analytics, authentication, and storage. Google has been constantly working to improve Firebase, most recently announcing new extensions for Firebase at Google I/O 21. Now, Google has announced that Firebase offers beta level support for tvOS and macOS, along with support for Apple TV and Apple Arcade too.
Google announces dates for 2021 Android Dev Summit, Chrome Dev Summit, and Firebase Dev Summit
Looking forward to the news from the Android Dev Summit, Chrome Dev Summit, and Firebase Summit? Here's when the 2021 events will happen!
Google's biggest developer conference of the year is Google I/O, where the company unveils a plethora of new services and upgrades to existing ones. Given the sheer size of Google as a company and the limited amount of time available, it's impossible for some of the larger teams within the company to unveil everything they've been working on. That's why some teams within Google hold dedicated events to bring developers up to speed on the latest features and tools they need to be aware of. Today, Google unveiled the dates for three such developer events: the Android Dev Summit, the Chrome Dev Summit, and the Firebase Summit.
Google unveils loads of new Firebase features to streamline app development
Firebase, Google's cloud-based app tooling suite, is getting new features to streamline app development, as confirmed at Google I/O 2021.
Google I/O kicked off earlier today, and at the big Developer Keynote, we're getting a lot of Android development-related news. There have been changes to Flutter, new features in Jetpack, and, if the title of this article didn't tip you off, new things in Firebase.
Google announces new emulator, data analysis, and performance insight tools for Firebase
At Firebase Summit 2020, Google announced new emulator, data analysis, and performance insight tools for the development platform.
Google's Firebase is a pretty comprehensive set of development tools. Its goal is to make app development and maintenance easier, with features like detailed crash reporting, user analytics, authentication, and storage. And Google is constantly working to make Firebase better.
Google lists which Firebase SDKs require Google Play Services
Considering implementing one or more of Google's Firebase SDKs into your app? Check this list to see if they depend on Google Play Services!
Google is a pretty ubiquitous name in the Android space. Not only does the company own and maintain the Android Open Source Project itself, but it's also in charge of the largest distribution platform on Android: the Google Play Store and the underlying Google Mobile Services (GMS) suite. GMS is the important part here. Firebase, Google's cross-platform toolkit for things like analytics and crash detection, uses GMS to provide a lot of its functionality.
PSA: A Firebase Cloud Messaging exploit is likely behind strange push notifications from Microsoft Teams and Hangouts
A recently disclosed vulnerability in Firebase Cloud Messaging has led to strange notifications from apps like Microsoft Teams and Hangouts.
It seems we can't go a day without another significant security flaw popping up somewhere in some software or service. This week seems to be the time for Firebase Cloud Messaging to run up against an easily-exploitable vulnerability.
Firebase adds a new local emulator UI, payment processing extensions, and ML Model Management API
Google's Firebase has added in a new local emulator UI, two payment processing extensions, and ML Model Management API. Read on to know more!
Firebase is a toolset provided by Google, functioning as a unified backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform for mobile developers. In a nutshell, Firebase provides a fair few tools for in-code utilities like analytics, authentication, databases, configuration, push messaging, file storage, and more. The overall platform helps developers accomplish a lot of common tasks within their apps without needing to individually build their own solutions for these tasks. For instance, the Firebase Auth SDK makes it easy for developers to add a complete sign-in system with an accompanying UI to their apps. Recently, Firebase has added new tools and features, such as a new emulator UI, Stripe payment processing extension, an enhanced TensorFlow lite deployment, and more.
Google decouples ML Kit's on-device APIs from Firebase and introduces Early Access APIs
Google has separated on-device machine learning APIs in ML Kit from Firebase and announced a new Early Access program for testing upcoming APIs.
Google uses artificial intelligence extensively to serve highly contextual and accurate web and image search results. Besides Search on the web platform, Google's machine learning models also provide for a variety of AI applications on Android phones ranging from the visual search on Google Lens to computational photography that Pixel devices are famous for. Apart from its own applications, Google also allows third-party developers to integrate machine learning features into their apps seamlessly with the help of ML Kit, an SDK (Software Development Kit) which is part of Firebase – its online management and analytics dashboard for mobile development. As of today, Google is announcing a major change to ML Kit and will make on-device APIs independent of Firebase.
Google announces Firebase Live and Web.dev Live virtual events for developers
Google is announcing a couple of virtual events. These developer-focused events will be Firebase Live and Chrome web.dev Live, held this June and July.
With practically every in-person event has been canceled this summer, Google is announcing a couple of virtual events. These developer-focused events will be for Firebase and Chrome web.dev, held this June and July. Here's what you need to know:
New Google Play, Firebase, and Android Studio tools announced for game developers at Google for Games
During Google for Games 2020, Google announced a plethora of new tools in Google Play, Firebase, Android Studio, and more for Android game developers.
Although the Game Developers Conference (GDC) was canceled to limit the spread of COVID-19, Google is hosting its "Google for Games" Developer Summit entirely online. Today, the company announced many new tools in Google Play, Firebase, Android Studio, and more for mobile game developers. Here's what's new.
Firebase Authentication now supports Sign in with Apple
Firebase Authentication, an API that lets mobile app developers easily add sign-in support with popular web services, now supports Sign in with Apple.
Whenever I sign-up for a new online service or an app asks me to sign-in to store some data in the cloud, I generally try to use one of the "sign in with" options, which usually includes Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Microsoft, if they are supposed. Most people already have one or more accounts with these large providers, so it's convenient, both for the user and for the developer, to support logins this way. For app developers, unless you really want to (or have to) implement your own user authentication system, then you're better off using an off-the-shelf auth system like Firebase Authentication.
Google announces App Distribution, Extensions, and Analytics for web apps in Firebase
At the annual Firebase Summit, Google announced new features for its developer platform: App Distribution, Extensions, web apps Analytics support, and more.
If you're an Android app developer, then you've probably looked into or are already using Firebase, Google's mobile development suite. Unless you plan on distributing your app outside of Google Play, then there's no downside in implementing one or more of the tools offered by Firebase (that depends, of course, on how much you can afford.) Through Firebase, you can implement Google Analytics for insights into app usage and user engagement, perform A/B testing with Remote Config, improve user retention through targeted messages with Cloud Messaging, track crashes through Crashlytics, host websites with Hosting, and much more. With over 2 million monthly active apps using Firebase, Google wants to make the platform even more useful for Android app developers, so they're continuing to expand Firebase's feature set.
Firebase adds 3 new capabilities in ML Kit and Performance Monitoring for web apps
During Google I/O 2019, Google announced 3 new APIs in ML Kit and the extension of Firebase Performance Monitoring for web developers.
Google's mobile development platform, Firebase, is getting its biggest update this year at Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O. Today, Google announced new ways they're improving the accessibility of machine learning for developers; Google is also extending its performance monitoring tools to help web developers speed up their web apps.
Firebase gets enterprise support, a new REST API, and general availability for iOS Test Lab and Predictions
At Firebase Summit, Google announced enterprise customer support, REST API for programmability, availability for iOS Test Lab/Firebase Predictions, & more.
Firebase is a platform by Google that helps mobile and web app teams get the best experience while developing applications for Android and iOS. The Firebase team have been rolling out the necessary tools for almost everything a developer may need. Today, during the Firebase Summit in Prague, Google's Firebase team announced a bunch of new tools and features that will help you out even more. We spoke with Francis Ma, Head of Product of Firebase, who was happy to share the announcements with our community.
Millions of users' data leaked through misconfigured Firebase backends
Millions of users' data have leaked through misconfigured Firebase backends, leaving plaintext passwords and more publicly viewable.
Millions of users' data have been leaked because of misconfigured Firebase backends, according to a report from Appthority. Around 113GB of data over 2,271 databases were exposed publicly as a result of being misconfigured. Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service offering by Google which was reported to be the fastest growing SDK in 2017. The service is hugely popular among the top Android developers. It provides cloud messaging, push notifications, databases, analytics, advertising and a lot more that developers can utilize, all powered by Google's high-performance servers. However, it seems that many developers are misusing it.
Google's ML Kit is a new Firebase SDK that takes the headache out of machine learning
Interested in machine learning but don't have much experience? Google's new ML Kit SDK makes machine learning easy to incorporate into your Android or iOS app.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have quickly entered our lexicon in recent years, but few truly understand how the technology works, or what they're capable of. Even Google's own AI researchers joke that machine learning is akin to alchemy. As a busy developer, you may not have the time to learn about machine learning (ML), but Google doesn't want that to stop you from reaping its benefits. For that reason, the company today announced ML Kit: A new SDK that incorporates years of Google's work on machine learning into a Firebase package that mobile app developers on both iOS and Android can use to enhance their apps.
Why and How to Use Google's Firebase Suite: What Its Tools Can Do for You
In this article we explain why you should check out Firebase, and how it can help you succeed with its tools!
The fundamental building blocks of Android app development can be whittled down to an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and a device or emulator to run it on, and while these are enough to build an app, a host of other tools augment the developer experience, aiding the team behind the product to scale the product, improve the user experience, increase engagement and retention, and earn more.