Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack

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P. SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8745-3_10

10. Firebase

Peter Späth¹  

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Leipzig, Germany

 

Firebase is the name of Google’s cloud and (offshore) development platform. In this chapter we talk about cloud data storage and cloud-based messaging.

Note

Firebase is more than just messaging and data storage – please consult the online documentation (e.g., https://firebase.google.com/products-build ) and information you find in the Firebase console, and the information Android Studio gives you, to see what else can be done.

Firebase Cloud Storage

You can save files to and read them from Google Cloud Storage using the Cloud Storage ...