7 posts tagged with "Firebase"

Firebase Database is a free backend infrastructure product, provided by Google, that serves as a backend for your mobile app. It can store an unlimited amount of unstructured data, that can be queried in real-time by mobile apps with only a few lines of code, due to the powerful SDKs provided by Google.

Every iOS app should leverage push notifications to boost user engagement and retention. Push notifications are a powerful tool, but implementing them in Swift 5 has been historically tricky since you usually needed a server. If you’re just getting started with your app development, chances are you’re already using Firebase as your backend. That’s great news – implementing push notifications with Firebase in Swift 5 is what we cover in this tutorial. In fact, we’ve followed exactly these steps to add push notifications to our Group Chat app.

Firebase is having great momentum these days. It has gained a lot of traction among mobile developers, who are truly embracing this backend-as-a-service concept. We are using it for all of our iOS app templates. In this Firebase Swift tutorial, you'll learn how to build the login and registration screens that you can find in most of our apps. This is one of the first tutorials on this topic (Firebase Swift tutorials), and we're super excited to make this a wonderful course series. At the end of this Swift Firebase tutorial, we're going to finish these beautiful functional onboarding screens:

With the release of Swift 5 approaching and Firebase Firestore finally getting out of beta, let's take a look at how the Firebase Facebook Login is implemented in Swift. All of our Swift app templates have Facebook support since it's a widely demanded feature, so let's see how we implemented it.

While building the push notifications feature for our iOS Chat app, we've encountered the need to send device to device push notifications in Swift with Firebase. Until a while ago, this was not even possible without running your own server, but fortunately, Google Cloud Messaging platform has evolved tremendously within the last year, and now sending app-to-app push notifications directly from Swift is totally doable. Broadcasting remote push notifications from Firebase Console UI is straightforward since it only involves a few clicks on a nice GUI. But mobile apps are more complicated than that – in many cases, you need to notify a specific user about actions that were triggered by other users. A few concrete examples where we are using device to device push notifications in our Swift app templates:

Any business that is developing an e-commerce application will certainly consider Stripe when it comes to processing payments. Stripe provides an awesome library that instantly enables users to use their mobile phones for online payments. Stripe SDK has increased in popularity tremendously in the last 5 years, and it represents our preferred payment processor in our app templates. Integrating Stripe Firebase in iOS is extremely powerful, but quite challenging, which is the reason why we have written this tutorial.

It’s extremely common for a mobile app to support dynamic features such as user management and user-generated content, like social posts, photo uploads, or private messages. To build this functionality, an iOS developer will need a web backend that acts as a central database and serves data to the iOS client. To choose the best backend for your iOS app there are a few things to consider right from the start. Luckily, in most of the cases, the decision is simple: use Firebase.