State of Firebase in 2020

Talk given at GDG Johannesburg Firebase Festival

Transcript

1. Peter-John Welcome GDE Firebase @pjapplez State of Firebase in 2020 An Overview of what’s new in Firebase in 2020.
2. Half screen photo slide if text is necessary Who I am Freelance Mobile Engineer Google Developer Expert for Firebase
3. Firebase
4. Firebase in 2012
5. Firebase in 2020
6. Firebase’s Mission “Help Developers succeed by making it easy to build and operate apps.”
7. Firebase UI Emulator Suite
8. Firebase UI Emulator
9. • Accessing databases offline • Can now run end to end tests on CI • Easily import and export data • Increase in development productivity • Unit Testing security rules • Testing does not contribute to your quota Benefits of UI Emulator
10. Interacting with UI Emulator Dependencies implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:25.11.0') implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore-ktx' implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-functions'
11. Interacting with UI Emulator Firestore private fun setUpFirebaseEmulators() { val host = "10.0.2.2" // Android Emulator localhost Firebase.firestore.useEmulator(host, 8080) Firebase.firestore.firestoreSettings = FirebaseFirestoreSettings.Builder() .setPersistenceEnabled(false) .build() }
12. Firebase Hosting
13. • Preview Channels - allows you to see your changes before deploying them to production • Github Action - to deploy your action to prod or preview. • Cloud Logging - better monitoring of your website • Much more. Firebase Hosting
14. Firebase Performance
15. Firebase Performance Performance dashboard has been redesigned to be more customizable and show the metrics that matter to you.
16. Firebase Crashlytics
17. • Stream your data into BigQuery in near real-time • Allowing you to schedule cloud function on BigQuery data for reporting/ investigating crashes on specific filters. • Visualization of your data with custom queries. Firebase Crashlytics
18. Firebase Extensions
19. • Prepackaged Solutions to common problems • All extensions are open sourced and you can create your own • Detect Online Presence • Stripe - Subscription payments Firebase Extensions
20. Honorable Mentions There's more • MLKit is now a standalone product and not part of Firebase • Fastlane Action for deploying your apps to App Distribution • Crashes from the fabric SDK will not be processed after 15 Nov. • Firebase C++ and Flutter codelabs are available • Cloud Firestore now supports != queries
21. Resources • https://firebase.google.com/docs/ • https://github.com/pjwelcome/JetExample (Emulator Android Sample) • https://github.com/pjwelcome/GDGCloudVision (Emulator iOS Sample) • https://github.com/firebase • https://www.youtube.com/user/Firebase • https://firebase.google.com/learn/codelabs/firebase-get-to-know-flutter • https://firebaseonair.withgoogle.com/events/firebase-live20 • https://firebase.google.com/summit/on-demand
22. Peter-John Welcome GDE Firebase @pjapplez Thank You!