Google Firebase: How to use the service for your app
Google Firebase provides tools and opportunities to develop and optimize your own app. We'll show you what's going on behind the platform.
Google Firebase - these tools are there
Google Firebase uses Google’s resources and technologies to provide you with tools that you can use to develop an app and generate and collect analytical data.
- Development: Development tools include Cloud Firestore, with which you can store and synchronize data between users and the devices, and the ML Kit, which enables you to integrate machine learning functions into your app. With Firebase Auth, you implement various authentication options.
- Optimization: There are also tools for optimizing the app. Performance monitoring records the performance on users' end devices. This gives you detailed information on performance problems. Crashlytics provides an overview of the crashes. To do this, Firebase uses real-time crash reporting to promptly point out critical crashes. With the Test Lab Service, you can start test runs of your app and check in which situations bugs and crashes occur.
- Marketing: With marketing tools, you collect data for improvement in the areas of user engagement, user experience and growth, among other things. Tools like A / B testing allow you to test two different versions of your app simultaneously. Google Analytics gives you insights into user behavior, interactions and traffic.
How to use the platform
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Google Firebase analyzes your app, collects and evaluates data in order to be able to give you valuable feedback. Your consent is required as soon as you create the project.
You can use Google Firebase for Android, iOS, Web and Unity apps.
The dashboard gives you an overview of your app, the activities and the tools that are available to you.
If you want to use the Google Firebase platform to expand and improve your app, you must link your application to the service. This allows Google to record all the app data that is required for the calculation and evaluation of the analysis tools.
- First you create a project. To do this, select the country of your residence and confirm that you agree that Google has access to all data required for the analysis.
- When you have created your project, register your app. Depending on the operating system, you need the name (Android), the bundle ID (iOS) or an app nickname (Web app).
- In the next step you download the config file and get access to the Firebase SDK.
- Finally, start your app to verify the installation of Firebase.
- The dashboard now gives you an overview of the statistics of your app and access to all the tools available to you.