firebase is the best as a Mobile Application backend

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Introduction of Firebase A real time backend
for Mobile and Web Application
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The mobile and cloud are the the buzzwords
nowadays. Every week theres some new innovation
comes related to these technologies. There are
many backed service provider like AWS, Kumulos,
Meteor, Kinvey, Mongodb, StackMob, Applicasa,
Appcelerator Cloud among them Firebase is on the
top with their main features like free and
unlimited analytics solution, Unlimited Reporting
and Audience Segmentation. Firebase has
integrated services like Firebase Crash
Reporting, BigQuery, Firebase Notifications,
Firebase Remote Config and Google Tag Manager to
improve their services. Why to use firebase? As
everyone knows that Parse was very popular BAAS
for specially for iPhone and Android based
application but as they announced to close their
service on 2017. So parse based application will
no longer available. If you dont want to use own
backend server then Firebase is good option to
create your application without backend services.
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What is the firebase ? Firebase database is
NoSQL database. Firebase service base on node.JS
so its response will be very fast compare to web
services. If you are in planning for application
in which user dont need to wait much on the
screen to load the data and concern about app
usability then firebase is best suitable option
for your app. If you want to build application
real time syncing with multiple devices or chat
application then also firebase will be very
helpful to achieve your goal. As Google has
acquired firebase, Now firebase is providing many
new features of Google services like Cloud
messaging, Crash reports, Analytics, Test labs,
Google cloud storage, Dynamic links, Email
service, Admob Advertisement, Location If you
are planning to use firebase then one more
benefit is firebase is providing some social
networking login options Email Login, Facebook ,
Twitter, GitHub , Gmail.
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• Benefits
• Create Application without backend server
• No need extra money spent for backend server
• Sync real time data in the application
• Quick display data in the application
• Faster than any backend web services
• Push notification
• No SQL database so it is more faster
• Analytics
• Crash reports
• Cloud storage
• Dynamic Linking
• Test Lab
• Auto backup
• and many more

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Push notification Push notification is the
service to notify user even application is not
running even in background. But if you want to
send push notification to iOS device, the major
requirement is we should have 2095/2096 port open
which is not generally shared hosting service
providers are not providing. So, solution for
this was either they need to choose VPS
/Dedicated server or UrbanAirship kind of paid
service use. Firebase is providing service to
send push notification without enable your server
port. You just need to call one rest API which is
provided by firebase then you can send Push
notification in the app. In firebase these
service called as Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
and it supports iOS and Android both platform.
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• Analytics
• Firebase is providing app analytics functionality
  with out any extra charge with that we can track
  all the reports like How many user installed the
  your app?, How many user has perform particular
  events?
• We can track users data like age, gender
  username etc using app analytics. We can logs
  events like signin , sign up, Home etc as per
  your application requirement.
• Track below information using Analytics
• Track users data
• How many installation for your application?
• How many user sign up in your application?
• How many active user in your application?
• How many time user view some screens ?
• How many time user clicks like button in the
  app?
• How many retention user in the application? Etc..

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Crash Reports This is the most useful
functionality in any application. This feature is
more useful for improve your application and
increase your application users. I think you
dont know how many times your application stop
working in some Device or some OS issue or any
other data issue. This is the very helpful tool
for track crash reports. If your application
crashing then you will get crash reports on your
email ID instantly. So you can track how many
crash issue generated in the application. So you
can resolved then crash issue in newer version.
Newer application version user will not get same
crash issue again. This service is available for
both platform. This crash reports will be display
line number of code where your application is
crashing so you can provide this report to your
developer then he/she can resolved quickly this
issue.
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Cloud storage These functionality will be more
helpful to storage any files on your cloud.
Google is providing this service in minimum
charges. Before few months in earlier version of
firebase, this functionality was not be included.
So we had only to possibilities either store
base64 text in database or store image on another
server. Now, in latest version of firebase SDK,
we can now store images or any file in Google
cloud with minimum charges. Scalability The
major thing in any project is scalability. What
if we get millions of the users? What type of
server configuration and load balancing we would
require? If server wont be able to surprised
traffic then product may fail but with firebase,
they will manage everything, we just need to
define proper structure of the data. Everything
related to scalability, load balancing backup
will be managed by firebase itself which will
give big relief.
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Performance Performance of the application is
tremendous with firebase as they provide data
real-time. We can sync it with multiple device
without waiting for refreshing the screen. Yeah,
the key concern is the database structure for the
application and would require to pay more
attention on same. As we stated earlier, it is
not SQL database and somewhat different than then
MongoDB or other NoSQL databases with bit more
limitations. Feel free to reach us if you are
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