Firebase Cookbook

By : Houssem Yahiaoui

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Firebase Cookbook

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By: Houssem Yahiaoui

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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.

Preface

Introduction

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Firebase - Getting Started

Introduction

Creating your first Firebase application

Adding Firebase to an existing frontend project

Integrating Firebase into the backend

Integrating Firebase in Android applications

Integrating Firebase in iOS applications

Firebase Real-Time Database

Introduction

Saving and serving data in and from our Realtime Database

Updating and deleting data from our Realtime Database

Structuring data within our Realtime Database

Implementing offline capabilities support

File Management with Firebase Storage

Introduction

Creating file storage references

Implementing file upload

Implementing file serving and downloading

Implementing file deletion

Implementing file metadata updates

Firebase file storage error handling

Firebase Authentication

Introduction

Implementing email/password authentication

Implementing anonymous authentication

Implementing Facebook login

Implementing Twitter login

Implementing Google Sign-in

Implementing user metadata retrieval

Implementing the linking of multiple authentication providers

Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules

Introduction

Configuring the Firebase Bolt language compiler

Configuring database data security rules

Configuring database user data security rules

Configuring storage files security rules

Configuring user storage files security rules

Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase

Introduction

Integrating Node-FCM in a NodeJS server

Implementing service workers

Implementing sending/receiving registration using Socket.IO

Implementing sending/receiving registration using post requests

Receiving web push notification messages

Implementing custom notification messages

Firebase Admin SDK

Introduction

Integrating the Firebase Admin SDK

Implementing user account management by fetching users

Implementing user account management by creating accounts

Implementing user account management by deleting accounts

Implementing notification sending

Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions

Introduction

Getting started with Cloud Functions

Implementing data manipulation

Implementing data-change monitoring

Welcoming users upon account creation

Implementing account email confirmation

Sending re-engagement emails to inactive Firebase users

We’re Done, Let’s Deploy

Introduction

Deploying our application to Firebase

Customizing the Firebase hosting environment

Integrating Firebase with NativeScript

Introduction

Starting a NativeScript project

Adding the Firebase plugin to our application

Pushing/retrieving data from the Firebase Realtime Database

Authenticating using anonymous or password authentication

Authenticating using Google Sign-In

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config

Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively

Introduction

Implementing the pushing and retrieving of data from Firebase Realtime Database

Implementing anonymous authentication

Implementing password authentication on iOS

Implementing password authentication on Android

Implementing Google Sign-in authentication

Implementing Facebook login authentication

Facebook authentication in Android

Facebook authentication in iOS

Generating a crash report using Firebase Crash Report

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config in Android

Adding dynamic behavior using Firebase Remote Config in iOS

Hack Application's Growth

Introduction

Implementing sending/receiving app invite in Android/iOS

Implementing topic subscription in Android/ iOS

Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings

Introduction

Integrating Firebase analytics into Android/iOS applications

Implementing event logging on Android/iOS

Implementing user properties for data and audience filtering

Integrating Firebase AdMob with Android/iOS applications

Implementing Firebase AdMob banner ads on Android/iOS

Implementing Firebase AdMob native ads express on Android/iOS

Implementing AdMob ads targeting

Firebase Cloud FireStore

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Integrating Firebase analytics into Android/iOS applications

You've probably heard about Google analytics before. It's the best friend of developers and marketers when it comes to getting metrics and gathering non-intrusive data about their application's users. For a long time, having such a powerful mobile platform was a dream, but now Firebase is offering that by providing you with both a very beautiful yet very informative dashboard that you can find over at your Firebase project console. Here's how our current Android Firebase powered application will look over at Analytics:

Figure 1: Firebase Analytics based on application section.

It will hold up everything from active users, to a total awesome map showing you where your users are coming from, to even the kind of mobile devices they are using, as well as the OS version. Also, with such integration, we...