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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624718
Pages 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
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Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain from about eight years. He is a Google certified engineer, speaker at global scale conferences and he also runs a youtube channel (AndroidABCD) for Android developers. He is an early Firebase adopter since before Google acquired Firebase. He is Computer Science and Engineering graduate who is completely passionate about innovation in technology. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his e-karma. Ashok has also written a book on Wear OS programming through a project approach.
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Keep It Real – Firebase Realtime Database 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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Cloud Messaging

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a messaging service that offers a cross-platform messaging solution. FCM can be used to notify when there is new data available to sync. Using FCM, we engage the user and increase the chance of user retention. FCM allows up to 4 KB of payload transfer. The legacy way to send messages and notifications was the now-deprecated GCM. Google officially recommends using FCM for notifications and data messages.

There are some outstanding key capabilities, such as versatile message targeting, which allows device-specific messaging and the grouping of devices, including those subscribed to topics, and the sending of messages from user apps that can send acknowledgments, chats, and other messages from FCM.

FCM essentially includes two components: sender and receiver. The sender can be the application backend server or trusted services such as Firebase functions. Receivers are mobile and web platforms such as iOS and Android devices. 

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Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain from about eight years. He is a Google certified engineer, speaker at global scale conferences and he also runs a youtube channel (AndroidABCD) for Android developers. He is an early Firebase adopter since before Google acquired Firebase. He is Computer Science and Engineering graduate who is completely passionate about innovation in technology. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his e-karma. Ashok has also written a book on Wear OS programming through a project approach.
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