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GETTING STARTED WITH FIREBASE Dhrumil Shah / @dhuma1981

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The Realtime Backend for your App

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Creating an app shouldn’t require managing complex infrastructure.

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THE FULL STACK

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The full stack is never really that simple

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… and neither is the client side

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The user doesn’t care about your backend

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THE USER EXPECTS Speed Offline Multi-platform Simple Authentication

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FIREBASE The Realtime Backend for your App

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THE FIREBASE BACKEND

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FORGET THE SERVER Firebase apps can run in client-side code only

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CLOUD DATABASE NoSQL data-store Returns JSON from a RESTful API

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REALTIME DATA Whenever data is updated in Firebase, it sends the update down to every listening client

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OFFLINE

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INTERMITTENT OFFLINE What happens when you go through a tunnel? Firebase clients store a local cache of your data. When the user goes offline, the app still works as expected with the local cache.

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ENTENDED OFFLINE What happens when you go on a flight? On mobile, Firebase persists data to a local store. The app will continue to work even across app restarts.

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ONE LINE OF CODE Firebase.getDefaultConfig().setPersistenceEnabled(true);

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Firebase supports several forms of authentication Email & Password Google Twitter Facebook Github Anonymous … and even custom backends

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WELL DOCUMENTED

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FIREBASE META-DATA 224,603 registered developers 1M concurrent users on Firebase sites Joined Google October, 2014

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FOCUS ON YOUR APP The user doesn’t care about the backend What matters is that your app is fast and enjoyable

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ASK ME QUESTIONS Dhrumil Shah / @dhuma1981 Android Developer / @9Series Solutions Pvt. Ltd Co-organizer / @GDG Ahmedabad http://www.dhuma1981.in