What's New with Firebase

After this years Google I/O, Firebase was upgraded and become an even more important role in the range of Google services available. Now properly integrated with Google Services, Firebase offers developers much more than than just a database for "personal" projects.

The new updated Firebase however has left many developers a bit puzzled on how to properly include Firebase in their projects, how it integrates into Google Services, and how they can make use of the new features available.

If you’ve used Firebase already, you might be aware of how to integrate and make use of it in your applications but if not prior knowledge isn’t necessary. In this talk I’d like to share with you how migrate your existing code to the updated versions, what new features you’ll be able to take advantage of, and any pitfalls that you can hopefully avoid!

https://2016.devfest-berlin.de/schedule/#session-2206

Transcript

1. What's New in Firebase! Ash Davies
2. What's Firebase?
3. Developing is Hard
9. Authentication → Authentication & account management → Email & password authentication → Google, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub → Custom OAuth2 redirect domains
10. Realtime Database
11. Data Synchronisation → Graceful Connectivity Loss
12. Data Synchronisation → Graceful Connectivity Loss → Application Data Cache
13. Data Synchronisation → Graceful Connectivity Loss → Application Data Cache → Client Synchronisation
14. Data Synchronisation → Graceful Connectivity Loss → Application Data Cache → Client Synchronisation → Conflict Resolution
15. 10MB Cache
16. Can I still change the configured cache size?
17. No!
18. Cloud Hosted NoSql Database
19. { "users": { "alovelace": { "name": "Ada Lovelace", "contacts": { "ghopper": true }, }, "ghopper": { ... }, "eclarke": { ... } } }
20. What's New?
21. Set Up // Legacy SDK compile "com.firebase:firebase-client-android:2.5.2" // Distributed SDK compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.8.0" compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:9.8.0" compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.8.0" compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:9.8.0" compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-config:9.8.0"
23. dependencies { // ... } apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
24. The Tasks API1 Task<AuthResult> task = FirebaseAuth.getInstance().signInAnonymously(); task.addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<AuthResult>() { @Override public void onSuccess(AuthResult result) { /* ... */ } }); task.addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() { @Override public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception exception) { /* ... */ } }); 1 https://developers.google.com/android/guides/tasks
25. Analytics → Free and Unlimited
26. Analytics → Free and Unlimited → Automatic Reporting
27. Analytics → Free and Unlimited → Automatic Reporting → Seamlessly Integrated
28. Analytics → Free and Unlimited → Automatic Reporting → Seamlessly Integrated → Cross Platform
29. Audiences
30. Where's my Data?
32. Google Data Studio Firebase Templates
33. Firebase Analytics Debug View
34. Firebase Analytics Stream View
36. Crash Reporting
37. Crash Reporting Detailed Insights with Analytics
39. Remote Config → Audience Customisation
40. Remote Config → Audience Customisation → Staged Roll Out
41. Remote Config → Audience Customisation → Staged Roll Out → Feature Flags
42. Remote Config → Audience Customisation → Staged Roll Out → Feature Flags → A/B Testing
43. Hosting → Serve static assets
44. Hosting → Serve static assets → SSL by default
45. Hosting → Serve static assets → SSL by default → Custom domains
46. Hosting → Serve static assets → SSL by default → Custom domains → Available free
47. Storage → Robust Operations → Strong Security → High Scalability
48. Cloud Messaging
50. Admin SDK → Integrate with CI systems → Import users into Firebase Auth → Manage Users, Database
51. But wait, there's more! → App Invites → App Indexing → Dynamic Links → Test Lab → AdWords
52. ! Android Peppermint Realtime Chat github.com/ashdavies/peppermint
53. QR, SRSLY?!
54. ! Android Peppermint Google Nearby API ... github.com/ashdavies/peppermint
55. Twitterers → Doug Stevenson - CodingDoug → Laurence Moroney - lmoroney
56. Twitterers → Doug Stevenson - CodingDoug → Laurence Moroney - lmoroney Shameless... → Ash Davies - DogmaticCoder
57. Resources GitHub - github.com/firebase YouTube - youtube.com/firebase Slack - firebase-community.appspot.com Slides - github.com/ashdavies/talks
58. Thank You.