It’s been almost a year since the release of Firebase ML Kit and the team brought some neat changes to the package: 4 new AI models to do with Natural Language and Preparation for Production. Of course, as one who advocates the ease of use of AI so endearingly as long as it doesn’t destroy…
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For the caveman who have yet to know what an index is, a database index is a value stored that maps items in the database to their locations. In other words, this lets queries happen faster as without an index, a query would have to crawl through items in the database one by one and…
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We’ve all seen it at least once before: that little extra layer of security when we create an account on Gmail, Netflix, and possibly on every login into our online bank accounts. A verification code is sent to our device which we have to enter to get past that glorious second layer. If you want…
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It’s probably common knowledge right now that doing a standard email-password authentication in Firebase is piss easy. The same can’t be said about using it’s various providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Play Games, Github, etc. and that’s because each one requires its own unique set up which isn’t always so straightforward. Today, I’m going to focus…
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Firebase provides us 3 plans for their pricing: the free Spark plan which gives generous allocations to most of their products for many hobbyists and indie developers; the fixed Flame plan which costs $25/month to give a project bigger allocations to Firebase product usage; and the wild Blaze plan whose cost scales with your usage of it.…
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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 stream of data flowing, handles errors well, and it does…
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If there’s one thing programmers like to do around Christmas time, it’s to compose the cringiest lyrics to sing on top of familiar Christmas songs. For example: I present you Firebase’s Christmas video. Dashing through the code Our console’s on display O’er the fields we go Debugging all the way (log log log!) Analytics on Making…
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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 here on this blog, Firebase In Use where I go over…
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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 can integrate Cloud Functions into your app but just can’t…
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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 be excited about.” Of course, it’s me we’re talking about…
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