Firebase is a mobile application and website development platform, backed by Google to help developers deliver rich web and mobile app experiences. Firebase now manages its own excellent infrastructure with some wonderful set of tools to simplify the workflow of the developers by offering them with development kits and an online dashboard. These toolkits are interconnected, scalable and integrated with third-party software to overcome complex challenges with standard building blocks. Even Firebase helps to improve your app quality when the development is done. Let’s see some of the changelogs that list new updates to the Firebase console and Firebase services.
What’s new on the Firebase console and services?
Add Firebase Admin SDK to your Server
The admin SDK allows you to communicate with Firebase from privileged environments to perform actions like:
- Where the admin can read and write realtime database data with full admin privileges.
- Sends firebase Cloud Messaging messages using an alternative approach to the Firebase Cloud messaging server protocols.
- The admin can generate and verify Firebase auth tokens.
- Can access Google Cloud Platform resources like Cloud Storage buckets and Cloud Firestore databases associated with your Firebase projects.
- Can build your own simplified admin console to do things like user data or change a user’s email address for authentication.
Here are the firebase features are supported in various languages such as Node.Js, Java, Python, Go, C# are:
- Custom token minting
- ID Token verification
- User Management
- Control Access with custom claims
- Firebase cloud messaging
- FCM multicast
- Manage FCM topic subscriptions
Features supported in languages such as Node.js, Java, Python, Go are:
- Refresh token revocation
- Import users
- Session cookie management
- Generating email action links
- Realtime database
- Cloud storage
- Cloud Firestore
Project management is supported in Language Node.js, Java, Python. Managing SAML/OIDC provider configurations are supported in Node.js and Go. Multi-tenancy and security rules were supported in node.js language.
Add Firebase to your Flutter App
The following are the steps followed to add firebase products to a Flutter app in iOS and Android.
- Step 1: Create a Firebase Project
- Step 2: Register your app with Firebase
- Step 3: Add a Firebase configuration file
- Step 4: Add FlutterFire plugins
Finally, everything was done. Your flutter app is enrolled and configured to use Firebase.
Arrange and manage a Firebase project applying Management REST API
At present this is a Beta version. The Firebase management REST API allows programmatic setup and management of Firebase projects that include a project’s Firebase resources and Firebase apps.
Here we will describe the workflow that is generally used to add Firebase resources and apps to an existing Google Cloud Platform project that does not currently use Firebase services.
Even you can just skip to specific sections of this page in case if you want to:
- To your Project add Firebase services
- Append Firebase apps to your projects
- You can link your project to Google Analytics Account
- Finalise your project’s default location.
Prototype and test emulator suite
The Firebase local Emulator Suite is a kit of advanced tools for developers that are looking to build and test apps locally using realtime Database, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Firebase Hosting. Development with a local emulator suite will be best suggested for prototyping, development and continuous integration workflows. Let’s understand what a Firebase local emulator suite.
What is Firebase Local Emulator Suite?
The Firebase Local Emulator Suite features individual service emulators designed to accurately mimic the behavior of Firebase services. In other words, you can connect your app directly to these emulators to perform integration testing or QA without touching production data.
Emulator Suite in your local Workflows
The prototype and test workflow can use the Local Emulator Suite in three ways:
- Unit Tests: Using the firebase test SDK, one can write unit tests in Node.js with Mocha test runner. The Test SDKs offer several comfortable methods for loading security rules, flushing the local database between tests and managing synchronous interaction with emulators.
- Integration Tests: In this, you can use the Emulator Suite as the backend so as to use your own testing tools to write self-contained integration tests.
- Manual tests: Even you test your running application manually to the Emulator Suite to test, without any risk in production data or configuring a test project.
Firebase Extensions
This extension is a beta release in which the functionality might change in backwards-incompatible ways or have limited support. Firebase Extensions help you deploy functionality to your app quickly with prepackaged solutions. Once the installation process is complete the firebase extension performs a specific task or set of tasks in response to HTTPs requests or triggering events from other Firebase products, like Cloud Firestore or Firebase Cloud messaging.
Key Capabilities of Firebase extension
- Reduce time spent on development, maintenance and growth
- Built to be configurable and reusable
- Integrates the Firebase Platform
- Security and limited access
- Zero maintenance
ML Kit
ML Kit is a mobile SDK that brings Google’s Machine Learning Expertise to Android and iOS apps in a powerful but easy to use package. Even though you are new to machine learning language, you can implement the functionality with just a few lines of code. There is no need to have knowledge of neural networks or model optimization to get begin. The ML kit offers convenient APIs that help you to use your custom TensorFlow Lite models in your mobile apps.
The Key capabilities of ML Kit
- Production-ready for common use cases
- On-device or in the cloud
- Deploy custom models
App Distribution
Firebase App distribution is a beta release where the functionality may change backwards-incompatible ways. Firebase app distribution provides distributing your apps to trusted testers. By obtaining your app to testers devices quickly you can get feedback. If you use Crashlytics in your apps, you will automatically get stability metrics for all your builds.
Key Capabilities for App distribution
- Cross-platform
- Fast distributions
- Fits into your workflow
- Tester management
- Works with Crashlytics
Firebase A/B testing
Using Firebase A/B testing helps to optimise your app experience by making it easy to run, analyse and scale product and marketing experiments. It will provide the ability to test changes to your app’s UI, features or campaigns to engagement to see if they actually move on your key metrics before you roll them out widely. In general, the A/B testing works with FCM so you can test different marketing messages and with Remote config so you can test changes within your app
Key Capabilities of Firebase A/B testing
- Test and improve your product experience
- Recognise different ways to re-engage your users by using the notifications composer
- Safely roll out new features
- Target predicted user groups
Firebase In-app messaging
Firebase In-app messaging assists you to engage your app’s active user by sending them contextual messages that support them to use key app features. Using In-app messaging you can make your users subscribe, watch the video, complete a level, or buy an item. You can format messages as cards, banners, modals or images and set up triggers so that they appear exactly when they would serve your users most. Usage of firebase in-app messaging to encourage exploration and discovery.
Key capabilities of Firebase in-app messaging
- Send relevant and engaging messages
- Target messages by audience or behaviour
- Create flexible, custom alerts
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