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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

You're reading from   Mastering Firebase for Android Development Build real-time, scalable, and cloud-enabled Android apps with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624718
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Keep It Real – Firebase Realtime Database FREE CHAPTER 2. Safe and Sound – Firebase Authentication 3. Safe and Sound – Firebase Crashlytics 4. Genie in the Cloud – Firebase Cloud Functions 5. Arsenal for Your Files – Firebase Cloud Storage 6. Not Just a Keeper, Firebase Hosting 7. Inspection and Evaluation – Firebase Test Lab 8. A Smart Watchdog – Firebase Performance Monitoring 9. Application Usage Measuring and Notification, Firebase Analytics, and Cloud Messaging 10. Changing Your App – Firebase Remote Config and Dynamic Links 11. Bringing Everyone on the Same Page, Firebase Invites, and Firebase App Indexing 12. Making a Monetary Impact and Firebase AdMob and AdWords 13. Flexible NoSQL and Cloud Firestore 14. Analytics Data, Clairvoyant, Firebase Predictions 15. Training Your Code and ML Kit 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing Firebase functions

Firebase functions are convenient and powerful. But, sometimes you need to know the correct spells to make your magic work efficiently and effectively. Although we write all the code inside index.js, we have to learn many more things, and that happens only with practice. If you choose TypeScript while creating the project - if you want to explore the TypeScript way of using Firebase functions - it's almost the same, but with a few contract changes. 

The file type when we choose TypeScript will be .ts; therefore, our index.js will be index.ts. Every time you deploy the code, you need to make sure the TypeScript code transpiled and then hosted. In case of TypeScript, we need to configure tsconfig.json; follow these steps to make sure of valid configurations.:

  1. In package.json, add the bash command to build the TypeScript project...
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