Firebase training

Talk given at GDG DevFest Nord Italia 2016 in MIlan

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1. Firebase training Roberto Orgiu
2. Who’s speaking? • Android developer since Android 2.2 ~ more than 5 years • Speaker, author, gamer ~ nearly 30 years +RobertoOrgiu @_tiwiz roberto.orgiu@gmail.com
3. Who knows this logo?
9. What is in your app? ANALYTICS NOTIFICATION CRASH Reporting Extra Services
10. Integrated
11. Cross-platform C++ and Unity compliant
12. Getting started with the platform
14. ❏ Designed for apps ❏ Event and user centric ❏ Connects across Firebase ❏ Free & unlimited Firebase Analytics
15. Audiance segmentation Firebase Analytics Keylines Unlimited reporting Up to 500 distinct events per app
16. Firebase services Firebase Analytics Integration Big Query • Access all 25 event parameters and user properties • Generate custom metrics • Join your Firebase Analytics dataset with data from external sources • Firebase crash reporting • Firebase notification • Firebase Remote Config
24. Does Firebase analytics replace Google Analytics? NO
25. Firebase Analytics Why we should like • Free & unlimited • Some standard events are logged automatically • Easy setup • Audiences of users • Funnel analysis • All in one console What is missing • No real time view * • Events available after 4 hours * • Only mobile platform • Behavior flow misses Since Firebase Summit
26. Which should I use? • For app-only companies: use Firebase Analytics • For companies that only have a website: use Google Analytics • For companies with both an app and a website: use both Firebase Analytics and Google Analytics with their integration
27. ❏ Account management ❏ Synch & conflict resolution ❏ Out of the box UI ❏ Compatible with most common accounts Firebase Autenthication
28. Firebase Autenthication User features Identity providers • Google • Facebook • Twitter • Github • Represents the account signed in the app • Fixed set of basic properties • Additional custom properties via Realtime database • Firebase Auth instance persists the user's state
29. Anonymous authentication • Some Firebase services need Authenticated users • Use temporary anonymous accounts to authenticate with Firebase • It is always possible convert anonymous user to permanent Account
30. ❏ Cloud-hosted NoSQL database ❏ Synch & conflict resolution ❏ Access directly from the app ❏ Freemium service Firebase Realtime Database
31. Realtime Firebase Realtime Database Keylines Offline No networking code
32. Firebase Realtime Database Structured Data • Data are a simple JSON tree • Avoiding nesting data • Flatten data structure • Create data that scale { “silvia”: { “item_1”: “Milk”, “item_2”: “Eggs”, “item_3”: “Kale” } }
33. “Kale” “Kale” Realtime Event Realtime Event listRef.push(“Kale”);
34. Firebase Realtime Database Security Rules • Define: ◦ how your data should be structured ◦ when data can be read from or written to • Rules type: ◦ .read: Describes if and when data is allowed to be read by users ◦ .write: Describes if and when data is allowed to be written. ◦ .indexOn: Specifies a child to index to support ordering and querying. ◦ .validate: Defines what a correctly formatted value will look like
35. Firebase Realtime Database Security Rules • Security overview: ◦ Authentication: control access to database ◦ Authorization: control access to data ◦ Data validation: check data consistency ◦ Indexes: define indexes for ordering and querying the data
37. ❏ Easy scalable file storage ❏ Handles poor connectivity ❏ Backed by & accessible from Google Cloud Storage Firebase Storage
38. Firebase Storage keylines • Firebase Storage performs uploads and downloads regardless of network quality. • Integrates seamlessly with Firebase Authentication to identify users. • Provides a declarative security language. • Files stored in Google Cloud Platform -No Firebase Realtime Database.
39. Firebase Storage - Storage security rules • determine who has read and write access to files stored • determinate how files are structured and what metadata they contain • Rules: the allow rule, which allowsread and write operations // Grants a user access to a node matching their user ID service firebase.storage { match /b/<your-firebase-storage-bucket>/o { // Files look like: "user/<UID>/path/to/file.txt" match /user/{userId}/{allPaths=**} { allow read, write: if request.auth.uid == userId; } } }
41. ❏ Served over a secure connection ❏ Fast content delivery ❏ Rapid deployment ❏ Connect custom domain ❏ Customize hosting behavior Firebase Hosting
42. ❏ Server side variables - key/value pair ❏ A/B testing without deploying ❏ User segmentation via Firebase Analytics & device features Firebase Remote Config
43. Firebase Remote Config - Flow
44. Firebase Remote Config - Rule types ❏ User random percentile ❏ OS type ❏ App ID ❏ App version ❏ Device language ❏ Device in region/country ❏ User audiance via Firebase Analytics
46. ❏ One services for mobile and web client ❏ Versatile message targeting ❏ Send messages from client app ❏ Integrates with Firebase Analytics Firebase Notification - FCM
49. Measure engagement
50. ❏ See crashes & impact ❏ Version & OS drill down ❏ Integrate with Firebase Analytics Firebase Crash reporting
53. Does Firebase crash reporting replace Crashlytics? These two particular tools behave correctly together due to their implementations. YES
54. Firebase Crash reporting Why we should like • Native & ordinary crashes displayed • Easy setup - no initialization • Integrated with Firebase analytics • All in one console What is missing • Required Google Play Services • No possible mark as resolved • Search through crashes is not easy. • Impossible to have listener when crash occurs
55. ❏ Real test automation services ❏ Scaled Infrastructure ❏ Only Android devices ❏ Pay as you go Firebase Test lab
56. 56% of 1 stars reviews due to app quality issues
57. Confidential & Proprietary
58. Confidential & Proprietary
59. ❏ Customize different user experiences via a single URL ❏ Works across platforms ❏ Preserves URL state, even through app install flow ❏ Analytics insights Firebase Deep links
64. ❏ Drop widget for sharing ❏ Support SMS & Email ❏ Recipient suggestions to the user Firebase App Invites
65. 32% by family, friends and collegues How people become aware about an app?
66. Share 15% off, for you and friends! Get 15% off your first order SEND in action
67. ❏ promotes app results on Google Search ❏ Associates your app and website ❏ Suggested results on the Google app ❏ App Indexing powers Now on Tap’s Firebase App Indexing
68. ❏ Engaging formats: video, interstitial & native ❏ 1M+ apps using AdMob ❏ Integrated with Firebase SDK Firebase AdMob
69. Thanks for watching!