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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
Just recently, Firebase started their Firebase Pro Series on their YouTube channel. “Because this is Google, we’re going to build a new chat app” This one stood out to me. Mike McDonald covered what probably most of us (myself included) did not know about the… Read More »Firebase Security Crash Course in a Nutshell
This week I said I’ll be doing something special and here it is. This past year has been HUGE for me. It’s a year I decided things needed to changed, a year where I’ve gone down a long road of constant self-improvement (which I’m nowhere… Read More »The Books, YouTube Channels, etc that helped me grow
You heard it. One of Firebase Cloud Messaging‘s biggest weaknesses was its inability to send messages inside the app. If the user had their app open, chances are the message wouldn’t even show up. Now in comes Firebase In-App Messaging. The service that allows you to do… exactly… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase In-App Messaging on Android
Although I have covered using Firebase Authentication with FirebaseUI, I figured I haven’t covered the traditional way of implementing Firebase Authentication which allows you to use your own authentication screen. Back to the basics! This one is going to be quick and easy. You don’t… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Authentication on Android
URLs used to be straightforward. You’d type one in, and most times, you’d be taken to a website. Simple, right? Enter the mobile age where much of the operating system is powered by apps outside of the traditional browser. Deep Links were a theory that could… Read More »How and why you should use Firebase Dynamic Links in your Android App
Cloud functions are rather… different. They work with pretty much any platform and that’s because they’re executed on the cloud. That does however make it easy to be confused when getting started with it. I sure was. Here we’ll simplify it down as much as… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Cloud Functions on Android
What is Remote Config you may ask? This. It’s just this: a set of key-value pairs stored on the Firebase servers. That’s it. That’s literally it. But what can it do? Well well well, where do I begin? What you do with Remote Config is… Read More »A Comprehensive Guide on Firebase Remote Config for Android
It’s only a couple weeks ago that I wrote the last piece from the ML Kit Series, but Firebase has been using Machine Learning way before that with Firebase Predictions. Yes boys this is ML Kit series bonus piece Predictions analyses your users’ behavior and… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Predictions on Android
If you’re already an experienced ML Developer, chances are you already have your own model that can perform operations such as Text Recognition and Face Detection. So why might you want to host your model using Firebase ML Kit? Well, here are the advantages of… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 6: Using Custom TensorFlow Lite Models
When an app can recognise all sorts of known landmarks, it can add a whole new level of experience and immersion. It doesn’t only need to apply to tourism-related apps. Say for example, you have a books app and you stumble across a library. You… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 5: Landmark Recognition
Ever tried out Google Lens and saw the app just tell you everything the camera sees? That’s exactly what Image Labelling is. You pass in an image and in return you get a list of FirebaseVisionCloudLabel each of which contains the label, the confidence (how sure ML Kit is… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 4: Image Labelling