Mastering Firebase for Android Development: Build real-time, scalable, and cloud-enabled Android apps with Firebase - Softcover

S, Ashok Kumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788624718 ISBN 13: 9781788624718

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Develop a fully functional dynamic Android application using the latest features of Firebase

Key Features

• Explore all the latest tools in Firebase―Firebase Firestore, ML-Kit, and Firebase Predictions
• Master Firebase cloud messaging, remote configuration, and work with a real-time database
• Make your app a global success with the help of Google Analytics and AdMob

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Learn about Firebase push notifications and write backend functionalities
• Identify the root cause of an application crash and diagnose and fix bugs
• Store different Multipurpose Internet MailExtension(MIME) type files
• Explore web hosting and connect the Firebase functions to the host website
• Send push notifications and understand the deep integration of analytics tools and cohorts
• Market and monetize your application using Firebase Adwords and Admob
• Build a secure authentication framework while enhancing the sign-in and on-boarding experience for end users

Who This Book Is For

Mastering Firebase for Android Development is for individualslooking to extend their skills with Firebase and build faster, scalable, and real-time mobile applications. Basic understanding of Android programming is necessary. In all, this in-depth guide is an accessible pathway to mastering Firebase.

Table of Contents

1. First things first, Setting up your development environment and Firebase Real-timedatabase
2. Safe and sound, Firebase Authentication
3. Safe and sound, Firebase Crash Reporting
4. Genie in the cloud, Firebase Functions
5. Arsenal for your files, Firebase Cloud Storage
6. Not just a keeper, Firebase Hosting
7. Inspection & Evaluation, Firebase Test Lab(Android)
8. A smart Watchdog, Firebase Performance monitoring
9. Application usage measuring and notification, Firebase analytics and Cloud messaging
10. Makeup your app, Firebase Remote config and Dynamic links
11. Bring everyone on the same page, Firebase invites, Firebase app indexing
12. Making monetary impact, Firebase Admob and Adwords
13. Flexible Nosql, Cloud Firestore
14. Firebase Predictions
15. Train your code, ML kit

About this title

About the Author

Ashok Kumar S has been working in mobile development domain from about eight years, He is a Google certified engineer, speaker at global scale conferences and he also runs a youtube channel AndroidABCD for Android developers. He is a early firebase adopter before Google acquires firebase.

He is Computer science and Engineering graduate, Who is completely passionate about innovation in technology space. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his E-Karma. Ashok Kumar S has also written a book on Wear OS programming through a project approach.

Entitled as Android wear projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788624718
• ISBN 13: 9781788624718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394