The Definitive Guide to Firebase: Build Android Apps on Google's Mobile Platform

Plan how to build a better app, grow it into a business, and earn money from your hard work using Firebase. In this book, Laurence Moroney, Staff Developer Advocate at Google, takes you through each of the 15 Firebase technologies, showing you how to use them with concrete examples. You’ll see how to build cross-platform apps with the three pillars of the Firebase platform: technologies to help you develop apps with a real-time database, remote configuration, cloud messaging, and more; grow your apps with user sharing, search integration, analytics, and more; and earn from your apps with in-app advertising.

After reading The Definitive Guide to Firebase, you'll come away empowered to make the most of this technology that helps you build better cross-platform mobile apps using either native Android or JavaScript-based web apps and effectively deploy them in a cloud environment.

What You'll Learn

• Use the real-time database for a codeless middleware that gives online and offline data for syncing across your users’ devices
• Master Firebase Cloud Messaging, a technology that delivers to connected devices in less than 500ms
• Grow your app organically with technologies such App Indexing, App Invites, and Dynamic Links
• Understand problems when they arise with crash reporting 
• Fix user problems without direct access to users’ devices
• Tie it all together with analytics that give you great intelligence about how users interact with your app

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Android, mobile app developers new to Firebase. This book is also for experienced web developers looking to build and deploy web apps for smartphones and tablets, too, who may be new or less experienced with mobile programming.

計劃如何建立一個更好的應用程式，將其發展成一個業務，並從您的辛勤工作中賺錢，使用Firebase。在這本書中，Google的Staff Developer Advocate Laurence Moroney將帶您了解Firebase的15種技術，並通過具體的示例向您展示如何使用它們。您將看到如何使用Firebase平台的三大支柱來建立跨平台應用程式：幫助您使用實時數據庫、遠程配置、雲端訊息等技術開發應用程式；通過用戶共享、搜索整合、分析等技術來發展您的應用程式；以及通過應用程式內廣告賺取收益。

閱讀完《Firebase權威指南》後，您將能夠充分利用這項技術，使用原生Android或基於JavaScript的網頁應用程式來建立更好的跨平台移動應用程式，並在雲端環境中有效部署它們。

您將學到的內容包括：
- 使用實時數據庫作為無需編碼的中間件，為您的用戶設備提供在線和離線數據同步
- 掌握Firebase Cloud Messaging，這項技術可以在不到500毫秒的時間內傳遞到連接的設備
- 使用App Indexing、App Invites和Dynamic Links等技術有機地發展您的應用程式
- 在出現問題時進行崩潰報告
- 在無需直接訪問用戶設備的情況下解決用戶問題
- 通過分析瞭解用戶如何與您的應用程式互動

本書適合有經驗的Android和移動應用程式開發人員，以及對於為智能手機和平板電腦建立和部署網頁應用程式的有經驗的網頁開發人員，他們可能對移動編程新手或經驗較少。