RxFirestoreKT is a great library for combining RxJava (Kotlin) and Firestore together, but what I noticed about Firestore is that it already contains many of RxJava’s advantages as it is. Firestore works asynchronously, it can map documents to POJO objects, and can keep a continuous… Read More »Vanilla Firestore vs RxFirestoreKT
If you know my man Sam Stern who’s popped up a couple times around my Reddit, you probably heard his talk with Kiana McNellis on Integrating back-end systems with Firebase for better app management. This sparked an idea for what could be a new series… Read More »Firebase In Use 1: Dynamic Admin-User Roles with Authentication
If you’ve seen my Getting Started with Cloud Functions post or went through any standard Cloud Functions tutorial, you probably deployed a function that sends a welcome message or something else that’s basic that way. Then you might be thinking of more cool ways you… Read More »Top 5 Awesome Use Cases of Firebase Cloud Functions
Okay I know I said the Getting Started series has been completely covered and concluded in the Performance Monitoring post. “And that about sums it up for the ‘Getting Started With’ series. I’m preparing a whole variety of changes here at EricDecanini.com that you should… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Invites for Android
I may have almost forgotten about my promise in my first Dynamic Links post I never did Until I started working with Dynamic Links again for one of my own upcoming apps where I’m using email-invites as a way for people to collaborate on a single shopping… Read More »Building Firebase Dynamic Links with the Android Builder API
In case you haven’t heard about RxJava, it’s a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for Java and Android apps. Making it excellent in conjunction with Firestore for things like say, responding to a change in the database and fetching the… Read More »A Beginner’s Guide to RxJava using Firestore and RxFirestoreKt
Chances are, you’re an indie Android Developer. You just finished an app and are about to release it on the Play Store then it hits you: you don’t have a way to get those downloads going. It hits you so hard that you might as… Read More »Planning a $0 Budget Android App Marketing Strategy with Firebase
Lots was announced in the keynote of this year’s Firebase Summit in Prague, Czechoslovakia, including new features integrated into Firebase Predictions, ML Kit, and Analytics. Watch the video to see my top picks for the 5 most exciting announcements of the summit. I do still recommend… Read More »Top 5 Highlights: Firebase Summit 2018 in Prague
We are on the LAST installment in our ‘Getting Started With’ series and it is on performance monitoring! Now there’s a reason why this was the last for me to cover, and probably the last that many of you would pay attention too (but please, correct me… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Performance Monitoring on Android
App Indexing is definitely one of the more heavily underrated features of Firebase. Perhaps, because people don’t know what it does. Your app might be sitting quietly in a user’s app drawer, almost forgotten. Along the line, they might Google search for content your app delivers. When… Read More »Re-engage Users through Google Search with Firebase App Indexing (Android)
Firebase Test Lab’s most prominent feature is almost definitely the Robo Test, but is that the most powerful? I’d beg to differ. While the robo test is handy for creating quick tests that simulate actual user interaction, just like a user’s navigation around the app,… Read More »Performing Mass Instrumentation Tests with Firebase Test Lab for Android (gCloud Command Line)
We all know testing is important. Very important. While it seems simple on the surface, it goes way deep. There are so many different methods of testing like say, unit tests, integration tests, UI tests, the list goes on. In comes Firebase Test Lab which lets you… Read More »Conducting Robo Tests with Firebase Test Lab
Don’t get me wrong, the Firebase Cloud Messaging docs are great. It’s all very extensive and the code’s everywhere. That’s EXACTLY why I’m going to make this post. Because I don’t understand a bloody bit of it mate. It takes me a full 4 hours just… Read More »Constructing POST HTTP Firebase Cloud Messages for dummies and YOU
Device Group Messaging allows you to send a single message to all devices that belong to a single user, otherwise known as a group. Quite frankly, a group can be the devices that belong to more than a single user, we are however limited to 20 devices… Read More »Device Group Messaging with Firebase Cloud Messaging
Topic Messaging is used for sending messages to people subscribed to well, topics. Perfectly suited for publicly available information like news, weather, and the sort. As such, we need to provide a way for users to subscribe before anything else. Subscribing to the Topic FirebaseMessaging.getInstance().subscribeToTopic(“news”)… Read More »Topic Messaging with Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android
We’re back to our Getting Started series in an aim to cover all the Firebase services on Android. As big as Cloud Messaging is, it leaves me to wonder why I didn’t cover this sooner. Cloud Messaging in a Nutshell Cloud messaging is your standard… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android