46 posts tagged with "Firebase"

Google Login reduces onboarding friction because many users already have a Google account on their phone. In React Native, the reliable pattern is to let a native Google Sign-In library collect the Google identity token, then pass that token to Firebase Authentication.

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.

In this article, we are going to build a simple functionality to showcase how you can upload photos to Firebase Storage in Flutter apps. We’ll be focusing on both the UI and the code functionality.

Firebase Cloud Messaging can power Flutter push notifications, but production setup needs more than a quick Android demo. This guide now frames the workflow around platform configuration, permissions, token lifecycle, routing, backend sends, and release-device testing.

Firebase Storage is commonly used in React Native apps for profile photos, posts, chat attachments, marketplace listings, restaurant images, and short videos. The upload code is simple, but production readiness depends on rules, file paths, billing, metadata, and cleanup.

Device-to-device notifications are useful when one user's action should notify another user. Common examples include:

Sign in with Apple is a common requirement for React Native apps that offer third-party login options such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Amazon. It also gives iOS users a privacy-friendly authentication option that works well with Firebase Authentication.

Push notifications are one of the highest-leverage features in a React Native app, but they are also easy to get wrong. Firebase Cloud Messaging can deliver messages to Android and iOS, but iOS still depends on APNs, modern Android requires runtime notification permission, and every production app needs a trusted backend to send notifications.

This guide focuses on the current architecture: the mobile app requests permission and stores device tokens; Firebase owns delivery; your backend sends messages with Firebase Admin SDK or FCM HTTP v1.

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.

An iOS app backend should match the product model, not just the first SDK you try. This guide compares backend decisions through authentication, data ownership, realtime needs, admin workflows, privacy, and long-term maintainability.