Attention all developers of apps! Surely you have already heard of Google Firebase and even many of you will have it and surely repeat it. For the rest of you who still have no idea what we are talking about, and for all the companies that have their own app or are looking to have one… This post interests you!
What is Firebase? Google, on the hunt for the app development and management market
we already know that Google It is in everything, it accompanies us to work, to university, to the park and even watches over us while we sleep. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before the technological giant launched itself into the world of SaaS (Software as a Service).
And it is that, all of us who dedicate ourselves to the world of internet marketing or to web or mobile development, we know that the process of creating and deploying an application can be a very difficult and sometimes frustrating task. Nothing escapes Google and it finds opportunities for improvement in people’s daily lives, turning them into business opportunities.
It did so, and in 2016 it launched a renewed and improved version of its platform. firebase. But what is it exactly?
firebase is a platform founded in 2011 and later bought by Google in 2014, which allows you to create and develop applications for mobile devices in high quality and very quickly. Its objective is to help facilitate the management of the app, the increase in the user base and, therefore, its monetization.
Firebase is available for both Android, such as for iOS or web. Furthermore, it contends several and diverse functionalities that every developer can mix and match to their own needs.
Why use Firebase? 7 compelling reasons
1- Speed
As we have said before, speed is one of its main characteristics. Some of the features of this platform that help us optimize the time spent developing and optimizing our app are, for example, the function to detect errors. We can also store everything in the Cloud, test the app or configure it remotely.
2- Forget the infrastructure
Well yes: developing an app can become a tedious task due to the complexity of its structure. Another reason we have, therefore, to use Firebase is that we can forget about it. Deploying Firebase is quick and easy. Thanks to intuitive APIs contained in a single SDK, you can focus on solving your customers’ problems and avoid wasting time creating a complex infrastructure.
3- Analytics
Firebase helps us make smart decisions based on data. Firebase Analytics is the free and unlimited analytics solution directly integrated into Firebase. You can get a lot of information about your users, from ad clicks to app usage. Firebase Analytics works with other Firebase features so you can monitor everything from click-through rate to app crashes.
4- Multiplatform
We have already warned you before. With firebase you can deliver cross-platform apps with APIs built into individual SDKs for Android, iOS, and JavaScript.
5- Notifications
With this platform you can also manage the programming and sending of push notifications to the users of your apps, something really useful to keep them up to date with the latest news… and not to forget about it.
6- Free startup and scalable project
Most Firebase features are free to use forever, for any size. Also, when our apps successful, we won’t have to worry about scaling our server code or providing additional capacity since firebase will take care of that.
7- Free support
How not! Google also offers free email support to all developers while the Firebase team and Google development experts actively participate in online communities like StackOverflow and GitHub.
How Firebase works
How could it be otherwise, Google has prepared a series of videos on YouTube as tutorials that will get us started with this software.
I said, Google It is almost never wrong and in this specific case, it has done nothing but improve more and more this platform that it acquired in 2014. So… why not try it?
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