State of Firebase in 2020

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Peter-John Welcome GDE Firebase @pjapplez State of Firebase in 2020 An Overview of what’s new in Firebase in 2020.

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Half screen photo slide if text is necessary Who I am Freelance Mobile Engineer Google Developer Expert for Firebase

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Firebase

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Firebase in 2012

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Firebase in 2020

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Firebase’s Mission “Help Developers succeed by making it easy to build and operate apps.”

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Firebase UI Emulator Suite

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Firebase UI Emulator

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● 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

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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'

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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() }

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Firebase Hosting

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● 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

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Firebase Performance

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Firebase Performance Performance dashboard has been redesigned to be more customizable and show the metrics that matter to you.

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Firebase Crashlytics

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● 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

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Firebase Extensions

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● Prepackaged Solutions to common problems ● All extensions are open sourced and you can create your own ● Detect Online Presence ● Stripe - Subscription payments Firebase Extensions

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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

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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

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Peter-John Welcome GDE Firebase @pjapplez Thank You!