Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it’s taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps.

Mobile and web developers have a new database available to them that's designed to offer high performance plus offline access. It's called Google Cloud Firestore, and it offers a fully managed system ...

Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained an In-App Messaging feature, new Crashlytics integrations, Remote Config ...

Backend-as-a-service provider Firebase started out as a database backend service infrastructure company that helps build web applications in real time, aimed to mobile devices such as smartphones and ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

There are many different ways that you can use location data in your Android apps. Previously, we’ve seen how you can display the user’s location on a Google Map; reverse geocode coordinates into a ...

Building database apps for a workgroup used to be a simple task. All we need is a new, modern set of Web tools to make that task easy again A friend of mine needs a simple database application to ...