It’s no doubt that coroutines are taking over as the go-to way to do asynchronous programming in Android over RxJava. Many of Firebase’s services use Task objects to perform asynchronous operations of their own, including Firestore, Authentication, Storage, and Remote Config. The standard way proceed… Read More »Using Coroutines with Firebase on Android
Let’s be real. MVVM and Dagger are very important concepts in Android Development. Yet, nobody really knows what’s the ‘right’ way to implement either of them. MVVM is simple enough, at least in its vanilla form. You’d simply follow this dependency diagram. The View knows… Read More »Android Chat Messenger with Firestore (MVVM Edition) with Dagger, LiveData, and Coroutines
Flutter is relatively new to the mobile development ecosystem but it’s already proving to be strong competition against Xamarin and React Native. To many developers, it’s already the de facto solution for building cross-platform apps. Cloud Firestore too is a powerful tool at the hands… Read More »Flutter Listviews with Cloud Firestore
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… Read More »Understanding Cloud Firestore Indexing
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
Firebase UI isn’t the most prominent thing about Firebase. Needless to say, it’s really undervalued. It makes use of pre-made design flows by Google so that we developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel for what we don’t need to. It makes developing apps ridiculously… Read More »A Comprehensive Guide to FirebaseUI for Android: The shortcut to Authentication, Firestore, and Storage
Cloud Firestore improved on many things over its predecessor, Realtime Database. One of which is security. Cloud Firestore’s security rules are more flexible and easier to write than those of the Realtime Database, especially without the trouble of cascading rules. Read on and I’ll let… Read More »Understanding Cloud Firestore Security Rules
Let me just get this out there. Firestore is amazing. I only found out about it recently and it is new (it’s still in beta as of now) but its documented structure is ingenious! Now I see it as an almost definite replacement to the Realtime… Read More »Getting Started with Cloud Firestore on Android
They’re both Cloud Databases made by Firebase. They can both work in real-time, both offer offline support, so what’s the difference? Firestore is nicer to work with because of its various data types. Since it’s built on GCP Cloudstore, it’s HIPPA compliant, unlike Realtime Database.… Read More »Firebase Realtime Database vs Firestore: Which is better?